Re: HTTP REQUEST_METHOD flaw

[ben () ALGROUP CO UK (Ben Laurie)]

Christopher Masto wrote:
> Sending a null, by the way, results in this interesting effect:
>
> 209.54.21.199 - - [07/Jan/1999:14:35:27 -0500] "ÿôÿý" 501 - "-" "-"
>
> (Perhaps that will be mutilated by non 8-bit mail transport.. it's the
> four characters ff f4 ff fd)

Not. That's you somehow inducing your telnet client to try to do some
negotiation. Naturally, Apache doesn't do telnet negotiation.

Cheers,

Ben.

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