I would concur - probably a script kid trying out any Web Servers to see if 
they are running mod_proxy, to use as an anonymous proxy, or bounce point - I 
would recommend checking the IP Address, against your firewall logs, and see 
if there was any other suspicious traffic around the same time. - If there 
is, I would notify the Security branch of your company, or your upstream 
provider.

On Thursday 22 March 2001 09:03, you wrote:
>   Most likely, somebody is trying to see if they can use your Apache server
> as a web proxy.  Based on the status code and file size returned, I would
> guess that your server is not running the proxy module and the default
> virtual host responded instead.
>
> --- Deocs Postmaster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Users,
> >
> > I found this in my access log this morning.  The server is
> >
> >  > Apache-1.3.19+mod_ssl-2.8.1 with mod_dav under Win2K
> >
> > and hosts both HTTP and HTTPS.
> >
> > 63.251.5.48 - - [22/Mar/2001:05:40:58 -0500] "GET
> > http://www.yahoo.com/index.html HTTP/1.1" 200 1048
> >
> > Has anyone else seen this, or know what it means?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Dave
> >
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