On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 11:11:13PM +0000, David Woolley wrote: > > Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand. > > Client sent malformed Host header
> I don't really have much sympathy with this problem as the URL is > deliberately designed to mislead filtering software; it is a typical > spammer's trick. True, although there are legitimate uses for these kinds of URL. > However, I think one can reasonably assume that Lynx is sending everything > between // and the first single / to one of: > - the user's proxy; > - the microsoft server; > - the offender's server at 212.254.206.213. It's the latter. A trace shows that Lynx connects to 212.254.206.213 and then sends an HTTP request with "Host: [EMAIL PROTECTED]". Here we have semi-transparent web proxying which uses the Host: header to find out where the request was meant to be going, so it's this proxy which sends back a 400. In other cases, the request is sent direct to 212.254.206.213 and it's that server which returns the 400. imc ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
