What's the http cook command?

[Red Squirrel]

I noticed this in my logs, it seems to act the same way as get. What is it for?

You can test it out:

telnet forums.anandtech.com 80
cook / http/1.1
host: forums.anandtech.com

It will just load the page. The queries themselves were nothing special, just regular pages being requested, no exploit attempt or anything of sorts. More curious as to what this command is, is it some kind of easter egg in apache?

 

[skriefal]

See here:
https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56234

Perhaps there's an index.php in the web server's root directory.

The requests are likely originating from a bot or scraper, for reasons unknown.

 

[MrColin]

have you looked at

man cook

?

 

[Red Squirrel]

It's not a Linux command it's an actual http command. Like GET, POST etc. And yeah I saw that apache page as well but they just dismissed it. You would think the apache people would at least know what it is lol. It is a bot doing it, I'm more or less curious what that command is about, it seems to be the same as GET. It does not seem to be hostile or anything like that.

 

[alkemyst]

http://serverfault.com/questions/579124/what-is-http-cook-request-method-in-my-logs

Another link, but nothing 100% concrete. It's not standard though, for sure.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Yeah found that too. Synapse is actually the bot in question too in my case. Rather interesting that's for sure.

Though further reading does suggest it's trying to look for sql injection vulnerabilities. Not too worried if that's all it's doing.

 

[BurnItDwn]

http cook command is for smart appliances! muahahahahaa terribad joke I make!