{"id":1399,"date":"2002-06-05T12:31:30","date_gmt":"2002-06-05T12:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=1399"},"modified":"2002-06-05T12:31:30","modified_gmt":"2002-06-05T12:31:30","slug":"web_security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=1399","title":{"rendered":"Web Security"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, looking through my logs I keep seeing people probing for this one cgi script called formmail.pl. What’s great about these probes is that they give me all their information.:<\/p>\n

64.108.203.174 – – [04\/Jun\/2002:15:16:24 -0400] “GET \/cgi-bin\/formmail.pl?email=lafam&subject=www%2Eezoons%2Ecom%2Fcgi%2Dbin<\/p>\n

%2Fformmail%2Epl&recipient=isyndr0i%40aol%2Ecom&msg=Formmail_Found! HTTP\/1.1Content-Type: application\/x-www-form-urlencoded” 404 2050 “-” “Gozilla\/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; windows 2000)”<\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/p>\n

So, if I really wanted I could send them back some email. I was wondering if this constitutes ‘abuse’, because I could then email their isp (in this case AOL). Either that or I could start signing them up for lots of mailing lists or for lots of spam.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, looking through my logs I keep seeing people probing for this one cgi script called formmail.pl. What’s great about these probes is that they give me all their information.: 64.108.203.174 – – [04\/Jun\/2002:15:16:24 -0400] “GET \/cgi-bin\/formmail.pl?email=lafam&subject=www%2Eezoons%2Ecom%2Fcgi%2Dbin %2Fformmail%2Epl&recipient=isyndr0i%40aol%2Ecom&msg=Formmail_Found! HTTP\/1.1Content-Type: application\/x-www-form-urlencoded” 404 2050 “-” “Gozilla\/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; windows 2000)” So, if I really wanted I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}