Re: Mastercard problems

[Adrian Chadd <adrian () creative net au>]

On Thu, Dec 09, 2010, Ben McGinnes wrote:
> On 9/12/10 7:49 PM, William Pitcock wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 18:34 +1100, Ben McGinnes wrote:
> > > On 9/12/10 8:04 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Philip Dorr <tagno25 () gmail com> wrote:
> > > > > The problem is that they were also slashdotted.  The logs would also have a
> > > > > large number of unrelated.
> > > >
> > > > pro-tip: the tool has a pretty easy to spot signature.
> > >
> > > What is that signature?
> >
> > The tool makes HTTP/1.0 requests, most browsers make HTTP/1.1 requests.
>
> Is there anything else to it, or just the protocol version?

Be careful - plenty of Squid's make HTTP/1.0 version.

ProTip: be careful. :-)



Adrian

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