haven't got a single reply (yet), so tempting to re-issue my query since I still get such strange logs on my web server, like the following :
59.59.104.62 - - [13/Mar/2011:18:38:24 +0100] "GET http://5566.net/ HTTP/1.1" 200 240 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows 95)" My web server says that with a HTTP-code "200" it has succesfully fullfilled the requested URL "http://5566.net/" ?! Citeren Rob De Langhe <rob.de.lan...@twistfare.be>: > hi, > > while going occasionally through the access logs of a 2.2.17 Apache server, I > noticed some URLs of remote locations where my server would have made a GET > for ?! > > an example: > > 194.0.122.134 - - [10/Mar/2011:02:26:55 +0100] "GET http://www.ebay.com/ > HTTP/1.1" 200 240 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows 95)" > > So the status code = 200 indicates that the server allowed that URL > "http://www.ebay.com"[1] for the client 194.0.122.134 ... > > I suspected that proxy functionality (enabled by default for long, but > luckily in this 2.2.17 version it is not enabled by default in the configs), > so I checked the loaded modules : > > # /usr/apache2/bin/apachectl -t -D DUMP_MODULES | grep -i prox > # > > so none. > > Which other module or config setting could have as effect that my server > accepts such requests ? > > rgds > Rob > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. Links: ------ [1] http://www.ebay.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.