[thelist] _vti_cnf?

eric at electronhosting.com eric at electronhosting.com
Tue Mar 26 23:40:02 CST 2002


The mysteriouus directories and files are for frontpage server extensions.  Frontpage uses a series of .exe and .dll files with "frontpage bots" in order to preform the same funtions that you might use cgi scripts for, things such as hit counters, form mail tasks, guest books, picture galleries ext. If your site is not frontpage generated you can delete these directories with out any concequence. note:They also provide for posting site modifacations through an HTTP header.

Eric Stanton
Electronhosting.com

---- Message from webmaster at menouno.com at Mon, 25 Mar 2002 18:56:22 +0100 ------
>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+credito
>+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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