[ale] OT: _vti_bin/owssvr.dll

[Jay Loden]

Interesting, good to know. I've seen the same in my logs, but always thought 
they were from the Frontpage Extensions i have installed :-)

-Jay

On Tuesday 07 June 2005 05:56 pm, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 13:17 -0400, Jay Loden wrote:
> > To the best of my knowledge, it's because of Frontpage Extensions. If you
> > remove them from your Apache install, it supposedly goes away.
>
> There is not FP extensions on that site, those errors just show up in
> the log files.  So far, the consensus is that these are valid/legit
> requests from IE browsers that have MS Office extensions enabled.  These
> extensions are checking to see if the webserver supports MS extensions
> (including FP presumably) However, in the past, there was some
> hacks/cracks for owssvr.dll so webservers are unable to determine if the
> request is an innocent user or an attempt to hack something that doesn't
> exist.
>
> -Jim P.