Ted Roche’s weblog

Noticed two interesting hits in the http://www.tedroche.com web server log today:
2004-01-18 13:05:56 203.177.113.121 - 192.168.1.98 80 GET /_vti_bin/owssvr.dll UL=1&ACT=4&BUILD=2614&STRMVER=4&CAPREQ=0 404 Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.1)
2004-01-18 13:05:58 203.177.113.121 - 192.168.1.98 80 GET /MSOffice/cltreq.asp UL=1&ACT=4&BUILD=2614&STRMVER=4&CAPREQ=0|-|0|404_Object_Not_Found 404 Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.1)
I’d guess that the first is a call to the Outlook Web Service for exchange, and the second a probe to see if there’s an [...]

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