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 Topic: Apache server keeps intercepting links from Yahoo Messenger. |
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dwmitch
Joined: 15 Feb 2011
Posts: 2
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 Posted: Tue 15 Feb '11 9:00 Post subject: Apache server keeps intercepting links from Yahoo Messenger. |
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I've been running Apache since December without any problems. However, lately it hasn't been playing so nicely with Yahoo Instant Messenger.
Whenever I send a link to a friend and she follows it she'll get a 403 error. I had her paste it into the window and it seems to be directing her to my server.
Here is the relevant section from access.log:
| Code: | xx.xxx.xx.xxx - - [15/Feb/2011:00:27:57 -0600] "GET /wiki/Mrs._Betty_Slocombe#Mrs_Betty_Slocombe HTTP/1.1" 403 1181 "-" "VB Project"
xx.xxx.xx.xxx - - [15/Feb/2011:00:29:17 -0600] "GET /wiki/Mrs._Betty_Slocombe HTTP/1.1" 404 1193 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13" |
As confirmed by the log, it is indeed catching links from YIM (in this case a link to a wikipedia article on Betty Slocombe) and sending my friend to my system to look for it.
This is a recent problem and the only change I've made to the setup was blocking a directory that had recently been compromised. Here is the change to my configuration file I made before the problem started:
| Code: | <Directory "C:/XAMPP">
Options None
AllowOverride None
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
</Directory> |
When clicking the links I send to her they open normally on my end. It's not an issue with the copy/paste functions because I entered the URL by hand and it still directed her to my server.
The link in the log is showing up as /wiki/Mrs._Betty_Slocombe#Mrs_Betty_Slocombe but the actual link I'm sending is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs._Betty_Slocombe#Mrs_Betty_Slocombe, which should lead her to wikipedia's server. |
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James Blond
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Joined: 19 Jan 2006
Posts: 7373
Location: Germany, Next to Hamburg
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| Posted: Tue 15 Feb '11 14:22 Post subject: |
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| I guess it is a bug in the messanger and not apaches issue. Why do you think this is related to apache? |
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dwmitch
Joined: 15 Feb 2011
Posts: 2
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| Posted: Tue 15 Feb '11 19:02 Post subject: |
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| James Blond wrote: | | I guess it is a bug in the messanger and not apaches issue. Why do you think this is related to apache? |
I thought it was related to apache because it didn't start until I made some adjustments to the config file. For two months every link my friend clicked went to the correct server but since blocking C:\XAMPP from outside networks it started sending her to my server looking for pages I don't have. |
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