[plug] strange GET requests

James Devenish devenish at guild.uwa.edu.au
Sun Sep 14 09:11:13 WST 2003


In message <sf6431cb.060 at mmtnetworks.com.au>
on Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 09:15:47AM +0800, Jon  Miller wrote:
> okay this was supposedly fixed by turning off ProxyRequests ON in
> /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf.  Is there another method of making sure
> this is off?

Ermm...do you mean how to turn off the *feature*? Well, that will depend
on your system and would be contingent on details such as WHAT WEB
SERVER IS SERVING THE REQUESTS????????? For Apache 1 and 2, what you did
should be fine -- though you might want to inquire with the person who
went and turned the feature on in the first place. You could also remove
Apache's mod_proxy, if you want to prevent admins from turning the
feature on in future. However, mod_proxy might have been compiled into
your server and cannot be removed without recompiling or installing a
different package.  Most people would find it sufficient to replace the
line like this (in httpd.conf):

LoadModule proxy_module       /usr/apache/libexec/libproxy.so
AddModule mod_proxy.c

with:

#Note from Jon Miller 2003-09-14: DO NOT enable mod_proxy
#LoadModule proxy_module       /usr/apache/libexec/libproxy.so
#AddModule mod_proxy.c


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