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Danll
Joined: 02 Aug 2013 Posts: 49 Location: USA, Houston
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Posted: Fri 28 Feb '14 23:24 Post subject: auto-index like commands; what are they?? |
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I get many GET requests that have auto-index like sort commands attached.
As in
Code: | GET /~account/directory/subdirectory/?M=A;S=D HTTP/1.1 |
I know what ?C=N,?C=M,?C=S,?C=D,?O=A, and ?O=D are supposed to do. But I also get lots of ?M=A, ?N=A, ?S=D. My Apache system just seems to reject those, and throws the requester my index file. What are those supposed to do? Why are people asking for things with those constructs? |
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glsmith Moderator
Joined: 16 Oct 2007 Posts: 2268 Location: Sun Diego, USA
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Danll
Joined: 02 Aug 2013 Posts: 49 Location: USA, Houston
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Posted: Sat 01 Mar '14 3:43 Post subject: |
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Unless I'm mistaken, that page describes just the autoindex requests I said I knew about (because I've looked at that page). This page doesn't tell me, for example, is what ?M=A is supposed to do. Lots of requests to my site come with that command. |
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glsmith Moderator
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Danll
Joined: 02 Aug 2013 Posts: 49 Location: USA, Houston
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Posted: Sat 01 Mar '14 17:02 Post subject: |
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So let me understand. I'm running 2.2.24. Why am I getting commands that are aimed at 1.3? Are these 1.3 auto-index commands really no longer applicable in 2.2?
Now, I should say that I recently upgraded to 2.2 from 1.3, so I guess these requests are coming from people who think they're still dealing with 1.3?
I'm confused. |
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glsmith Moderator
Joined: 16 Oct 2007 Posts: 2268 Location: Sun Diego, USA
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Posted: Sun 02 Mar '14 8:03 Post subject: |
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The look to be no longer applicable starting with 2.0.
As to why you're still getting them, your guess is as good as any. |
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Danll
Joined: 02 Aug 2013 Posts: 49 Location: USA, Houston
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Posted: Sun 02 Mar '14 17:33 Post subject: |
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Thank you. That works for me. Clearly I'm getting them because I used to be running 1.3, and people are still flinging the same auto-index options at me because of that. I think I'm safe to just ignore them.
I was just wondering if such commands were in some way malicious. Probably not. |
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