Printing logs is really arb yes... Anyways, you can ignore the requests with mod_security. It will return a 500 to the client. -- Chris. On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 09:08:34AM +0200, Axel-St?phane SMORGRAV wrote: > I am not going to ask why logs are printed in real-time to a dot-matrix printer. Maybe that is next best to sounding an alarm bell? > > Apart from using something like "Redirect(Match)? (403|gone) /sumthin" which you already do, what about directing error logs to a pipe that filters the entries you do not want to print? > > -ascs > > -----Original Message----- > From: Joshua Slive [mailto:jslive@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 6:27 PM > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Joel Bjurstr?m > Subject: Re: [users@httpd] Ignore requests > > On 5/9/05, Joel Bjurstr?m <maxxflow@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I've been a victim for this annoying /sumthin-attack, I get quite a > > few requests for that dir, that's very annoying, 'cause my (not very > > silent) dot-matrix printer is printing my error_log ;) So now i wonder > > if i can make apache simply ignore requests for /sumthin, so it gives > > no http-header, nothing. > > Now I'm using "Redirect gone /sumthin" in my .htaccess, so I don't get > > any errors in error_log, but it would (IMO) be better to just drop the > > request. Is that possible? > > No. Apache doesn't drop requests. > > I think you are addressing the problem from the wrong angle. Your problem is a very bad log management system. If you managed your logs more efficiently, these requests wouldn't be a problem. > > Joshua. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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