On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 7:02 PM, Caldarale, Charles R < chuck.caldar...@unisys.com> wrote:
> Here's Tomcat's standard 404 response: > > HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found > Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1 > Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8 > Content-Length: 1027 > Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 23:59:34 GMT > Wow, when I saw this last night, I shook my head and said to myself, Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1 this may be one of the reasons why my server/web-app are subject to repeat-offender attacks from certain/few IP addresses in China/Vietnam. I never new that a 404 would expose the server name (apache coyote). I guess/assume that once they see that server name in the 404 response, some of those bots continue to try and try.
