Re: Odd 302s in the logs (Apache Users)

That's what we call referrer spam. I've never really understood what the point was, but they make requests with bogus information in the referral field, which then ends up in your log files. Somehow this makes them feel good about themselves.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referrer_spam

Rich

On Fri, May 1, 2020, 17:37 @lbutlr <kremels@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Seeing a Loy of lines like this in the logs (mixed in with all the attemepts to accesses wordprex/admin-login types of URLS, of course)

46.118.227.27 - - [01/May/2020:15:10:37 -0600] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 302 213 "https://french-poetry.com/" "Mozilla/4.7 (compatible; OffByOne; Windows 2000) Webster Pro V3.4" 162 397
46.118.227.27 - - [01/May/2020:15:10:37 -0600] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 302 213 "https://studentguide.ru/" "Mozilla/4.7 (compatible; OffByOne; Windows 2000) Webster Pro V3.4" 160 397
46.118.227.27 - - [01/May/2020:15:10:37 -0600] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 302 213 "https://french-poetry.com/" "Mozilla/4.7 (compatible; OffByOne; Windows 2000) Webster Pro V3.4" 162 397
46.118.227.27 - - [01/May/2020:15:10:38 -0600] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 302 213 "https://studentguide.ru/" "Mozilla/4.7 (compatible; OffByOne; Windows 2000) Webster Pro V3.4" 160 397
46.118.227.27 - - [01/May/2020:15:10:38 -0600] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 302 213 "https://french-poetry.com/" "Mozilla/4.7 (compatible; OffByOne; Windows 2000) Webster Pro V3.4" 162 397

Don’t think my server is redirecting to studentguide.ru, but what is happening here?

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