RE: Weird apache logs

This outwar.com thing is an annoying little game, where people get "points" for getting (tricking) other people into following the link. This is probably some kid's attempt at racking up points by relaying the hits through a proxy (e.g. you) to make it seem like someone else is following the links.

I'd send a note to the outwar.com folks.

-----Original Message-----
From: Travis Read [mailto:travisr@rave.iinet.net.au] Sent: Tuesday, 25 February, 2003 19:57
To: incidents@securityfocus.com
Subject: Weird apache logs

Over the last few days I've noticed a number of weird GET requests in my apache logs. Has anybody else seen this kind of traffic or have any idea what's causing it?

66.31.196.92 - - [26/Feb/2003:05:51:24 +0800] "GET http://www.outwar.com/page.php?x=155098&pro=1e14c3925f8337fcb0d9b447f816493d HTTP/1.1" 404 291 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows 95)"

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