Re: HTTP GETs with a PUT

[Robin Wood <robin () digininja org>]

On 28 October 2012 18:01, anthony kasza <anthony.kasza () gmail com> wrote:
> What's the HTTP server software you're running this against?

This is the web server that php.net is running and it works fine against them

Server: Apache/2.2.21 (FreeBSD) mod_ssl/2.2.21 OpenSSL/0.9.8q PHP/5.4.9-dev

Robin

> -AK
>
> On Oct 28, 2012 10:38 AM, "Robin Wood" <robin () digininja org> wrote:
> > I've just been tidying up my tools and found a script which checks
> > which HTTP methods are enabled on a given site. I ran it against my
> > site and it said PUT is enabled. I know that it isn't so I manually
> > tested it and proved it wasn't enabled. I checked what it was actually
> > sending and it was trying to PUT to / so I tried that and got a 200
> > back along with the content of my index page. I tried again with
> > another page and got the content of that page.
> >
> > So for some reason PUT is acting as a GET for pages which exist, I
> > checked OPTIONS and that is doing the same both of them only work with
> > HTTP 1.1, not 1.0.
> >
> > I've tried a few sites, apache.org, pauldotcom.com and microsoft.com
> > all fail but php.net gives back the content.
> >
> > nc php.net 80
> > PUT / HTTP/1.1
> > Host: php.net
> >
> > HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> > Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 15:30:30 GMT
> > .
> > .
> > .
> >
> >
> > If this common it might be a nice way to bypass IDS that are looking
> > for GET or HEAD methods or to bypass restrictions which lock out those
> > two methods.
> >
> > Comments?
> >
> > Robin
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