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  3. July 2004

Re: Attempts to POST to web server mail 'cgi's

Hi John -

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.

With Apache I use RedirectMatch to force a 400 error on any path or document name that contain any of various strings, regardless of whether it is POST, GET, or HEAD.

For example:
RedirectMatch 400 [mM][aA][iI][lL]
forces a 400 error if the word mail appears, with any capitalization.

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Ken
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