gmer3.itd.sterling.com/home.htm in the access log

[Benn Boulton]

Hello Moshe,

Thanks for the reply.  I guess I was not clear enough in my post.  I know the /cr-bin/mp.exe is part of the POST request.
 What I do not understand is where the  gmer3.itd.sterling.com/home.htm is coming from. It is not my proxy_pass value.
It is not part of the POST request or part of the nginx proxy_pass or any thing I can find in my configuration.

Is my post being sent to both my proxy_pass value and this site in the log? Do I have a hacked nginx?

-Benn


From: nginx <nginx-bounces at nginx.org> On Behalf Of Moshe Katz
Sent: Thursday, June 3, 2021 12:14 PM
To: nginx at nginx.org
Subject: Re: gmer3.itd.sterling.com/home.htm in the access log

Benn,

That part of the log is not the request URL, it is the referrer header. The path that was requested on your server is before that - a POST request to "/cr-bin/mp.exe". The referrer (which the HTTP standard actually misspells as "referer") is the web page that is making this request to your server.

Moshe

On Thu, Jun 3, 2021 at 12:08 PM Benn Boulton <bboulton at skippingstone.com<mailto:bboulton at skippingstone.com>> wrote:
Hello,
I have just installed the NGINX service to help rate limit connections to my Apache server on Windows.
NGNIX 1.19.10 on Windows 10 64 bit

Everything seems to be working fine but I am getting access log entries that I do not understand for the pages I am redirecting.
I am running a process that posts to the server. NGNIX is processing the request and passing it to the destination server but it is not gmer3.itd.sterling.com/home.htm<https://url.emailprotection.link/?bD5H3QzZ3V5r-EeQ1owgpRQF9oV5l2NRIm985JaimcuSK9Ouf7HkyYPBjb_5XEDTDFQOhTH2rYvU2h1CLfmBEfM8_cgt7-mqSW8-5oZbZzhsOjFEa1jMAMRarOyYb8wct> as shown in the access log entries below.
Any Idea why
127.0.0.1 - t_skipstone [03/Jun/2021:10:30:07 -0400] "POST /cr-bin/mp.exe HTTP/1.1" 200 569 "gmer3.itd.sterling.com/home.htm<https://url.emailprotection.link/?bD5H3QzZ3V5r-EeQ1owgpRQF9oV5l2NRIm985JaimcuSK9Ouf7HkyYPBjb_5XEDTDFQOhTH2rYvU2h1CLfmBEfM8_cgt7-mqSW8-5oZbZzhsOjFEa1jMAMRarOyYb8wct>" "brow v1.0 CCI"
127.0.0.1 - t_skipstone [03/Jun/2021:10:31:07 -0400] "POST /cr-bin/mp.exe HTTP/1.1" 200 569 "gmer3.itd.sterling.com/home.htm<https://url.emailprotection.link/?bD5H3QzZ3V5r-EeQ1owgpRQF9oV5l2NRIm985JaimcuSK9Ouf7HkyYPBjb_5XEDTDFQOhTH2rYvU2h1CLfmBEfM8_cgt7-mqSW8-5oZbZzhsOjFEa1jMAMRarOyYb8wct>" "brow v1.0 CCI"
127.0.0.1 - t_skipstone [03/Jun/2021:10:33:35 -0400] "POST /cr-bin/mp.exe HTTP/1.1" 200 569 "gmer3.itd.sterling.com/home.htm<https://url.emailprotection.link/?bD5H3QzZ3V5r-EeQ1owgpRQF9oV5l2NRIm985JaimcuSK9Ouf7HkyYPBjb_5XEDTDFQOhTH2rYvU2h1CLfmBEfM8_cgt7-mqSW8-5oZbZzhsOjFEa1jMAMRarOyYb8wct>" "brow v1.0 CCI"
127.0.0.1 - t_skipstone [03/Jun/2021:10:37:42 -0400] "POST /cr-bin/mp.exe HTTP/1.1" 200 569 "gmer3.itd.sterling.com/home.htm<https://url.emailprotection.link/?bD5H3QzZ3V5r-EeQ1owgpRQF9oV5l2NRIm985JaimcuSK9Ouf7HkyYPBjb_5XEDTDFQOhTH2rYvU2h1CLfmBEfM8_cgt7-mqSW8-5oZbZzhsOjFEa1jMAMRarOyYb8wct>" "brow v1.0 CCI"
127.0.0.1 - t_skipstone [03/Jun/2021:10:55:03 -0400] "POST /cr-bin/mp.exe HTTP/1.1" 200 569 "gmer3.itd.sterling.com/home.htm<https://url.emailprotection.link/?bD5H3QzZ3V5r-EeQ1owgpRQF9oV5l2NRIm985JaimcuSK9Ouf7HkyYPBjb_5XEDTDFQOhTH2rYvU2h1CLfmBEfM8_cgt7-mqSW8-5oZbZzhsOjFEa1jMAMRarOyYb8wct>" "brow v1.0 CCI"
127.0.0.1 - t_skipstone [03/Jun/2021:10:56:34 -0400] "POST /cr-bin/mp.exe HTTP/1.1" 200 569 "gmer3.itd.sterling.com/home.htm<https://url.emailprotection.link/?bD5H3QzZ3V5r-EeQ1owgpRQF9oV5l2NRIm985JaimcuSK9Ouf7HkyYPBjb_5XEDTDFQOhTH2rYvU2h1CLfmBEfM8_cgt7-mqSW8-5oZbZzhsOjFEa1jMAMRarOyYb8wct>" "brow v1.0 CCI"

Thanks
Benn

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