[PLUG] Have Webserver? Check your logs

Mark Phillips mark at phillipsmarketing.biz
Thu Jan 7 18:11:03 UTC 2016


I am curious. Is this message meant to be

* funny and harmless
* a prank that may cause a problem for the uninitiated
* malicious and meant to do harm
* something else?

Thanks!

Mark
On Jan 7, 2016 11:01 AM, "chris (fool) mccraw" <gently at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 9:36 AM, Paul Heinlein <heinlein at madboa.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I got the same thing timestamped 30/Dec/2015:04:16:18 +0000 (so roughly
> > the same local time as yours). Kind of funny,
>
>
> Me three.
>
>
> > as long as it doesn't inspire legions of copycats.
>
>
> I am not worried about copycats - logrotate dutifully removes them from the
> face of the earth even if they are nonsense.  plus, I am ok disabling the
> DELETE verb on my apache (ref:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4167305/apache-limit-put-and-delete)
> since none of my apps use it.  Of course there will always be other
> vectors, and then someone will make a close of denyhosts to shut things
> down, if it really escalates :)
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