Re: \x HTTP requests

[Neil Dickey <neil () geol niu edu>]

"Maxime Ducharme" <mducharme () cybergeneration com> wrote:

> I see these HTTP request and I'm looking for more information :
> [ ... ]
> x.x.x.3 - - [08/Nov/2006:05:06:21 -0500] "\x80|\x01\x03\x01" 200 8 "-" "-"
>
> Would it be someone attempting to send https request on my port 80 ?

When I see things like that in my logs it's generally a buffer
overflow attack, or something like that, but the entry will be
a great deal longer.  What's really interesting to me about
your log excerpt is that your webserver successfully filled
the request, whatever it was -- that's what the " 200 " code
means.

Best regards,

Neil Dickey, Ph.D.
Research Associate/Sysop
Geology Department
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, Illinois
60115



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