Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-httpd-users-archive@httpd.apache.org Received: (qmail 57801 invoked by uid 500); 30 Jan 2002 21:24:03 -0000 Mailing-List: contact users-help@httpd.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Reply-To: users@httpd.apache.org list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Delivered-To: mailing list users@httpd.apache.org Received: (qmail 57779 invoked from network); 30 Jan 2002 21:24:02 -0000 Received: from windstorm.stormnet.com (205.159.174.17) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 30 Jan 2002 21:24:02 -0000 Received: from localhost.localdomain (ppp052-56k-Chico-liquidsky.stormnet.com [207.231.3.52]) by windstorm.stormnet.com (8.10.1-StormNet/8.10.1) with SMTP id g0ULNtH09749 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 22:23:58 +0100 Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 13:24:05 -0800 From: Raquel Rice To: users@httpd.apache.org Subject: Proxy (was Re: Interpreting Log Information: where can I find directions?) Message-Id: <20020130132405.66fdd503.raquel@thericehouse.net> In-Reply-To: References: <5.0.0.25.2.20020130070840.00a14130@192.168.1.2> Organization: TheRiceHouse X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.5.1 (GTK+ 1.2.6; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 10:19:17 -0500 Joshua Slive "Joshua Slive" wrote: > > Somebody is trying to use your server as a proxy server. Check > your > httpd.conf to make sure that the proxy is turned off. Most > likely, they are > not being sucessful. To check for sure, you can do the following: > > telnet www.digging4roots.com 80 > GET http://www.ebay.com/ HTTP/1.1 > Host: www.ebay.com > > and press "enter" twice at the end. > > If you get your own homepage back, then everything is configured > correctly > and apache is ignoring the attempt to use your server as a proxy. > If you > get ebay's home page, then you are running an open proxy, which > could be > dangerous. > > Joshua. Should the proxy be explicitly be turned off or is having them neither turned on nor off (commented out) okay? -- Raquel ============================================================ Faith is not knowledge of what the mystery of the universe is, but the conviction that there is a mystery, and that it is greater than us. --Rabbi David Wolpe --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@httpd.apache.org