[thelist] formmail "bad referrer" error, with no apparent cause?

Heather Quinn info at windyhilldesign.com
Fri Dec 7 13:29:23 CST 2001


Thanks for the response, Erik.  Someone's legitimately trying to use it.

Erik Mattheis wrote:

> I was just looking through logs and noiticed a bunch of failures like:
>
> /cgi-bin/formmail.pl?recipient=ken[edited]20021 at yahoo.com,&subject=good 
> news&email=R26587 at excite.com&=http://[edited]/cgi-bin/formmail.pl
>
> My first thought was that someone was trying to send spam through an 
> exploit - this is Matt's FormMail ... Perl isn't even on the server, 
> the file was just left over from a transfer.
>
> Is the failure in your log file or do you know of someone that's 
> legitimately trying to use it?

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Cheers,

Heather Quinn
info at windyhilldesign.com
http://www.windyhilldesign.com







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