From: Debra Bartling (bartling@peer.berkeley.edu)
Date: Thu Jul 19 2001 - 12:49:09 PDT
At 11:51 AM 7/19/01 -0700, Jerome M Berkman wrote:
>I noticed a lot of "PROPFIND" lines in our web log, e.g.:
>
>[remote host] - - [17/Jul/2001:09:40:44 -0700] "PROPFIND / HTTP/1.1" 501 170
>[remote host] - - [17/Jul/2001:10:28:24 -0700] "PROPFIND
>/instmsg/aliases/xxx HTTP/1.0" 501 172
PROFIND is a WebDAV method that retrieves properties. See RFC 2518. There
is also an IIS 5.0 PROPFIND DoS, so if you are running it, be aware of that.
Debra Bartling
Programmer/Analyst
National Information Service for Earthquake Engineering
University of California, Berkeley
Phone: 510-231-9558
http://nisee.berkeley.edu/
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