Slashdot looking for open proxies?
- Posted on August 25, 2008
- 2 comments
I saw the following somewhat-strange line in my web server logs today:
216.34.181.45 - - [25/Aug/2008:10:23:51 -0500] "GET http://tech.slashdot.org/ok.txt HTTP/1.0" 401 523 "-" "libwww-perl/5.812"
That web server is running on the IP of my home router. The requesting IP appears to be a Slashdot machine. My guess is that they are trying to find out who accesses their site through an open proxy. But why? Is there another reason they might send a request like that? Do they ban proxies if they find one?
UPDATE: Apparently, they do in fact ban open proxies (according to this). Supposedly a lot of comment spam comes from them. I wonder if it would help blogs at all to do something similar?
August 26, 2008 at 4:39 AM
Check out the bad-behavior plugin for WordPress. :-)
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