[Gllug] HTTP CONNECT

[will]

Steve Brown wrote:
> will wrote:
> 
>> a.b.c.d - - [10/Oct/2002:15:08:47 +0100] "CONNECT 
>> mail.somedomain.net:25 HTTP/1.0" 200 5417 "-" "-"
> 
> 
> Just a way to ask the webserver to connect you to mail.somedomain.net at 
> the SMTP port. An excellent way of injecting junk mail for mailing.
> 
> Basically anywhere this works is an open proxy and should be napalm'd 
> without delay.

OK, when I telnetted to my machine on port 80 and tried: "CONNECT 
mail.somedomain.net:25 HTTP/1.0\n\n" I got my homepage.  Is this what I should 
be getting?  Or do I need to start to worry?

Will.


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