[thelist] _vti_cnf?

[Robert Crosbee]

they are from frontpage. lovely, aint they. what you need to do is go into
your admin for that site and turn off frontpage extensions. then you can
delete all those vti folders.

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Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 12:56 PM
Subject: Re: [thelist] _vti_cnf?


> Hi;
>
> On 25 Mar 2002 at 17:44, Michael Efford wrote about [thelist] _vti_cnf?:
>
> > I am updating a website, and there is all these mysterious directories
> > called "_vti_cnf" within each subdir of the site?  I think they are
> > put there by Dreamweaver?
>
> they look more like Frontpage stuff. I get lots of 404 on my (UNIX hosted)
sites from
> IE users with Frontpage installed:
>
> 212.31.230.195 - - [01/Feb/2002:03:38:11 -0500] "GET
> /documenti/circolare_05042001.rtf HTTP/1.1" 200 28380
>
"http://www.google.it/search?q=tasso+interesse+legale+e+tasso+interesse+cred
ito
> +imposta&hl=it&start=150&sa=N" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows
> NT 4.0; ZDNetSL)"
>
> 212.31.230.195 - - [01/Feb/2002:03:38:12 -0500] "GET /_vti_inf.html
HTTP/1.1" 404
> 1080 "-" "Mozilla/2.0 (compatible; MS FrontPage 4.0)"
>
> 212.31.230.195 - - [01/Feb/2002:03:38:12 -0500] "POST
> /_vti_bin/shtml.exe/_vti_rpc HTTP/1.1" 404 1080 "-" "MSFrontPage/4.0"
>
> I guess these requests are somehow related to a document save operation,
but I
> would appreciate if somebody could come up with a better explanation,
expecially
> about the 'POST' in the last log entry
>
> ciao
>
>
> Massimo
>
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