Today is my first day of being at my new webhost HostPC.com -- and the awesome "DirectAdmin" app the service comes with. For the last 4 or so years, I've been with a hosting service that didn't give me access to the apache logs.
So, while I was checking out all the new information available to me, I checked out the apache usage log and was suprised to find 2 entries from different IP's attempting to do a HTTP POST to formmail.
Here are the entries:
216.60.21.4 - - [24/Sep/2004:10:44:04 -0400] "POST /cgibin/formmail.cgi HTTP/1.0" 404 - "http://www.MY-NAME-WAS-HERE.com/" "-"
65.102.221.45 - - [24/Sep/2004:10:44:14 -0400] "POST /scripts/formmail.pl HTTP/1.1" 404 - "http://www.MY-NAME-WAS-HERE.com/" "-"
I don't know anything about formmail, but my guess is that they are trying to use my account for spamming purposes.
I hate spam, so it occured to me that I could create something called "formmail.cgi" and "formmail.pl" that accepted a POST command, but didn't do exactly what these spammers expect.
Anyone got any good ideas?? :evil:
(I've never used perl, but I'm a programmer by nature -- so don't let that limit your suggestions!)
So, while I was checking out all the new information available to me, I checked out the apache usage log and was suprised to find 2 entries from different IP's attempting to do a HTTP POST to formmail.
Here are the entries:
216.60.21.4 - - [24/Sep/2004:10:44:04 -0400] "POST /cgibin/formmail.cgi HTTP/1.0" 404 - "http://www.MY-NAME-WAS-HERE.com/" "-"
65.102.221.45 - - [24/Sep/2004:10:44:14 -0400] "POST /scripts/formmail.pl HTTP/1.1" 404 - "http://www.MY-NAME-WAS-HERE.com/" "-"
I don't know anything about formmail, but my guess is that they are trying to use my account for spamming purposes.
I hate spam, so it occured to me that I could create something called "formmail.cgi" and "formmail.pl" that accepted a POST command, but didn't do exactly what these spammers expect.
Anyone got any good ideas?? :evil:
(I've never used perl, but I'm a programmer by nature -- so don't let that limit your suggestions!)
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