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Wednesday, 22 October 2003

Keeping localhost local ::

It’s easy in Mac OS X 10.3's Console to look at one’s local web server logs (/var/log/httpd/) and I found myself doing that this evening. Usually amidst my own tracks of messing around with my local copy of this site, there are just a few occasional, laughable attempts to probe my system for Windows web server exploits. But today I saw a steady stream of valid requests, eating bandwidth (and possibly opening a security hole since I muck around with CGI scripts): ...

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