Re: Attempts to POST to web server mail 'cgi's -- MIDRANGE-L

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Subject: Re: Attempts to POST to web server mail 'cgi's
From: David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 14:04:00 -0500
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John Myers wrote:

Any suggestions on how to combat this? We can't ban POST transactions because our site has a lot of CGI scripts (none of them mail-related). I guess that we could ban specific POST requests at the firewall level.

Ignore 'em ... if you don't have the page they are looking for, they will just get a 404 error.

They are looking for specific form processors that they know how to exploit. Anything else they ignore.

david

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