page.html/r -- what does it mean?

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page.html/r -- what does it mean?

confused by http request

Busynut

1:35 am on Apr 2, 2007 (gmt 0)

What does it mean when there's a page request followed by "/r" ... there was a single page request (no images, css, js, or other pages), followed by the /r like this:

/folder/page.html\r

Thanks.

jdMorgan

1:41 am on Apr 2, 2007 (gmt 0)

It means it was a badly-written script trying to access your site. The slash-r is an attempt to insert a carriage return at the end of the line. But it's wrong in two ways, which we'll leave to the script-writer to figure out.

Block the IP address in case he does.

Jim

Busynut

1:51 am on Apr 2, 2007 (gmt 0)

Thanks for the answer, Jim. The IP address is from ThePlanet.com.

When I inserted the url they used - I got a 404. They got a status code of 200. Is this reason to worry further? :(

jdMorgan

3:22 am on Apr 2, 2007 (gmt 0)

No reason to allow any accesses by servers from any hosting company unless you're in charge of a server there, and allowing it for some reason...

Just block 'em and be done with it.

Jim