On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Nico Foltinek wrote:
> I'd like to make a suggestion for documenting the mod_proxy vulnerability to
> being a spam relay. I agree that it's a user config issue (mea culpa), but
> there wasn't much in the docs that gave me the impression that mod_proxy was
> so powerful. Also, I'm using 1.3 as a reverse proxy, and the docs focus on
> securing a forward proxy. The 2.0 docs mention using mod_proxy as a reverse
> proxy, but still only allude to the <Directory> directive for securing it.

Please see
http://cvs.apache.org/~slive/manual/mod/mod_proxy.html
for a draft of the new proxy docs.  Any feedback is welcome.

> <LocationMatch "^[^/]">
>       Deny from all
> </LocationMatch>

I don't believe this is necessary.  Simply use
ProxyRequests Off
and you will be fine.

Joshua.

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