I think if you have FP installed and you use IE and
you have things configured a certain way, FP will just try to see if
the site supports FP Extensions.
Ok, but then, if he is using IE, shouldn't MSIE appear somewhere in the user
agent ?
IF the user agent is Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MS
Why on earth would you forbid HEAD?
I thought it was, because the response was not 200, but it is not.
The response is actaully 206, which is normal.
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I think if you have FP installed and you use IE and
you have things configured a certain way, FP will just try to see if
the site supports FP Extensions.
Ok, but then, if he is using IE, shouldn't MSIE appear somewhere in the user
agent ?
IF the user agent is Mozilla/4.0 (compatible;
Hi,
My sites are hit on a regular basis by this agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MS
FrontPage 14.0)
- it makes requests with methods OPTIONS or HEAD which are forbiden in my sites;
- it makes requests for pages that does not exist, like
- /_vti_inf.html
- /_vti_bin/shtml.exe/_vti_rpc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_FrontPage
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 10:26 AM, wrote:
Hi,
My sites are hit on a regular basis by this agent: Mozilla/4.0
(compatible; MS FrontPage 14.0)
- it makes requests with methods OPTIONS or HEAD which are forbiden in my
sites;
- it makes
My sites are hit on a regular basis by this agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible;
MS FrontPage 14.0)
- it makes requests with methods OPTIONS or HEAD which are forbiden in my
sites;
- it makes requests for pages that does not exist, like
- /_vti_inf.html
-
- it makes requests with methods OPTIONS or HEAD which are forbiden in my
sites;
Why on earth would you forbid HEAD?
Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
http://www.figleaf.com/
http://training.figleaf.com/
Fig Leaf Software is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) on
GSA Schedule, and
FrontPage is an HTML authoring tool from Microsoft.
So, do I suppose well if I suppose the user is trying to see if he can edit my
site if it is accessible to FrontPage and is not protected?
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Front Page is an abomination made by Microsoft a few years ago, It was a
piss poor attempt at drag/drop HTML.
The only thing worse than Front Page were the IIS extensions that would
routinely bring IIS to it's knees, or blow up IIS entirely.
It looks like someone is trying to hit your sites
Frontpage was not originally development by Microsoft, they bought ir or
the original company, realised Frontpage was an abomination and dumped it.
It has been discontinued and unsupported for many years, it has all kinds
of security issues.
On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 12:04 AM, Scott Stewart
Front Page is an abomination made by Microsoft a few years ago,
As we used to say back in the day: Friends don't let friends use
FrontPage. IIRC it dates back to '95. It mangled code. The only thing
worse was NetScape's authoring tool which rendered HTML utterly unreadable.
A the bad old
So, do I suppose well if I suppose the user is trying to see if he can edit
my site if it is accessible to FrontPage and is not protected?
Not necessarily. I think if you have FP installed and you use IE and
you have things configured a certain way, FP will just try to see if
the site
Front Page is an abomination made by Microsoft a few years ago,
As we used to say back in the day: Friends don't let friends use
FrontPage. IIRC it dates back to '95. It mangled code. The only thing
worse was NetScape's authoring tool which rendered HTML utterly unreadable.
A the bad old
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