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Re: Hidden requests to Apache

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lorenzo Pulici)
Thu Oct 25 11:53:24 2001

Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 08:58:53 +0200
From: Lorenzo Pulici <webmaster@weitzmann.it>
To: smiler <smiler@vxd.org>
Cc: bugtraq@securityfocus.com
Message-ID: <20011025085853.A17250@weitzmann.it>
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On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 09:09:59PM +0100, smiler wrote:
> GET / HTTP/1.0 \r\r\n
> In this case APACHE will print in the log file the carriage return
> character. So when we try to tail the access_log file it will be shown in
> the screen as :
> " 414 3461.251 - - [24/Oct/2001:18:58:18 +0100] "GET / HTTP/1.0
> A normal line would be :
> 127.0.0.1 - - [24/Oct/2001:19:00:32 +0100] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 164

I tested it locally on my Apache 1.3.22 and I got:

bash-2.04$ telnet 192.168.2.1 80
Trying 192.168.2.1...
Connected to 192.168.2.1.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET / HTTP/1.0 \r\r\n

On access_log:

127.0.0.1 - - [25/Oct/2001:08:48:39 +0200] "GET / HTTP/1.0 \r\r\n" 400 368


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