Re: apache weird GET

[Mike McNamara <mike criticalmatter com>]

> Getting lines such as these in apache access_log file:
>
>
> 211.23.180.230 - - [30/Jan/2004:03:22:27 +0100] "GET 
> http://www.yahoo.com/ HTTP/1.1" 200 6839 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 
> (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows 98)"
>
>
> What does it mean? (the "GET ...yahoo..." part)

Someone is attempting (possibly successfully) to use your copy of 
apache as a proxy server.  Do you have mod_proxy enabled and 
ProxyRequests set to 'on' without any host restrictions?


Mike