Re: IIS 4.0 leaking files?

[Michel Arboi <arboi () yahoo com>]

 --- "Stanley G. Bubrouski" <stan () ccs neu edu> a écrit : 
> I can.  It is called normal dumb browser behaviour

No. This behaviour does not come from the browser. Try to telnet to
some IIS web server, send it a GET or a HEAD request on /index.htm and
/index.htm/ and see how the content type changes from "text/html" to
"application/octet-stream".
The server is doing this.
BTW, this work with \ or  / too.

> not big webserver security hole.

Well, I could not download any ASP with this. I did not try other
extensions.

> The reason the file was downloaded is because netscape is
> stupid.

No the reason is that IIS is buggy. Not a big bug apparently, but
something dirty.

> /index.html/ which could be a valid directory...the webserver
> however did remove the slash.

It removed the slash but somehow decided that the extension of the URI
was "html/". "htm" or "html" should be sent as "text/html", but it has
no rule for "html/"; so it reverts to the default
"application/octet-stream" type.
Just my 0.02 EUR

> > hypoclear
> I love that name, I'm making a nameplate and putting it on my door.

Could we have a discount if we buy several at once? :)
 

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