[SAC] ProjectsVM Upgrade Problem

Martin Spott Martin.Spott at mgras.net
Fri Feb 10 04:27:01 EST 2012


On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 01:00:39AM -0800, Hamish wrote:
> Martin wrote:
> > Blocking ranges always carries the risk of throwing the baby
> > out with the bath water.  What about blocking all hosts trying
> > to HTTP GET any URL matching "\ \"GET http://" from the server
> > where the following host name is none of the virtual hosts ?
> 
> would that tend to lock out anyone who made a typo or a thinko?

No.  This would just lock out those who are directing HTTP requests to
the OSGeo "projects" VM while intentionally requesting pages which are
not hosted on the OSGeo "projects" VM - a case which usually doesn't
happen in case of a typo or thinko,

	Martin.
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