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I’m watching my web server logs scroll by, and every minute, I see the following:

216.239.69.45 - - [10/May/2004:10:04:18 -0400] “GET /getlatest.glh?PV=6.0.5.27&OS=WIN&L=en-US, en, *&LID=1033&ch=120+90+0+0+0&ch=72+53+0+0+0&ch=52+739+0+0+0&ch=33+923+0+0+0&ch=73+166+0+0+0&ch=97+108+0+0+0&ch=118+14+0+0+0 HTTP/1.0″ 404 1063 “-” “RMA/1.0 (compatible; RealMedia)”

Now, if Google can be trusted, and believe me, it can, it appears that this bozo somehow has his DNS screwed up so that it thinks I’m channels.real.com.

If only I had some suitably BOFHly way of handling this - like causing his RealPlayer to suddenly scream at him to shut the fucking thing off.

This entry was posted by Paul Tomblin on May 10, 2004 at 10:08 GMT under Geekery, Rant. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

3 Comments

  1. Simes says:

    Depends; I suppose it should be possible to write an Apache module to automatically shot back a media stream of some nails across the blackboard if it sees the above URL.

    May 10, 2004, 16:27 GMT

  2. Paul Tomblin says:

    I suspect that /getlatest.glh gets channel information in some manner, instead of actually returning an audio stream, though.

    May 10, 2004, 16:30 GMT

  3. Simes says:

    Well, you have two options here depending on how you pay for bandwidth. One is to send back lots of data and the other is to send back a zero length reply.

    The other fun thing is to see if you can get the format which would be returned by a valid getlatest.glh and then roll your own version… say something which put suitable comments into it.

    May 10, 2004, 17:31 GMT