On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 06:15:04 -0500 GDHough <mr6re9-mI4xJ4qlgtBiLUuM0BA3LQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:

So what harm can there be in setting an index.html inside /sumthin/? ;-)

I get far fewer requests for /sumthin/ than anything else I currently play with. I would like to explore the ramifications of utilizing this particularly regular request. I just wanted to see if there was sumthin to it before I create the index and special links.

Well, since they're lookin' for nothin', and, quelle surprise, gettin' sumthin', why not make it fun (for you)? I know there's a rewrite rule out there somewhere for Code Red that crashes the offending host. I'm not suggesting you violate the *law* or anything, but if you were to put an index.php that contained code which, say, displayed their IP, the name of their ISP, what OS they were running, etc. and a quick little missive about the possible time they might be spending in jail with Bruno the assmaster, it might put the fear o' $DEITY into some little 15 year old punk. You would want to make sure the PHP code is safe, of course, since it's running on *your server*, and if you are going to do some experimentation with this stuff, make damned sure Apache is running inside a nice safe jail, so you don't end up with egg on your face. I believe what you want to look at there is called "chroot". I'm sure there are many on this list who can provide more specific stuff, I'm just throwing out ideas ;-) -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "Behind every great fortune is a crime." -- Balzac -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml