I've got a program that accesses the following URL
with a GET command but the server responds with 400.
Is there something unusual about this site?

Thanks.

http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/An..._noaccess.html

The web server might be rejecting the program because of
unknown browser type. The site is flash based so it must be
checking for browser compatibility.

I would recommend using Ethereal to check the difference
between the HTTP get sent by a regular browser and your
program.

Deepa
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The web server might be rejecting the program because of
unknown browser type. The site is flash based so it must be
checking for browser compatibility.

I would recommend using Ethereal to check the difference
between the HTTP get sent by a regular browser and your
program.

Deepa
--
EventStudio 2.5 - http://www.EventHelix.com/EventStudio
Generate protocol sequence diagrams in PDF and MS Word

In article <1110420301.779955.185330@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups .com>,
"Yef" <e97y@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I've got a program that accesses the following URL
> with a GET command but the server responds with 400.
> Is there something unusual about this site?
>
> Thanks.
>
> http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/An..._noaccess.html

Are you sending the "Host: www.nasa.gov" header? I get a 400 response
if I leave it out, but the GET works when I put it in.

The server is presumably doing virtual hosting, so it needs to know the
hostname of the URL in order to find the proper page.

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In article <1110420301.779955.185330@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups .com>,
"Yef" <e97y@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I've got a program that accesses the following URL
> with a GET command but the server responds with 400.
> Is there something unusual about this site?
>
> Thanks.
>
> http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/An..._noaccess.html

Are you sending the "Host: www.nasa.gov" header? I get a 400 response
if I leave it out, but the GET works when I put it in.

The server is presumably doing virtual hosting, so it needs to know the
hostname of the URL in order to find the proper page.

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Arlington, MA
*** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***

I wasn't sending Host.

Incidentally, I've got another bizarre host:

http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/webclient/ch03.html

It sends back HTML which doesn't look like what later
appears in the browser, e.g. title= MakeZine.com

Do you have any idea what's going on with that?
Thanks.

I wasn't sending Host.

Incidentally, I've got another bizarre host:

http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/webclient/ch03.html

It sends back HTML which doesn't look like what later
appears in the browser, e.g. title= MakeZine.com

Do you have any idea what's going on with that?
Thanks.

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed "Yef" <e97y@yahoo.com> writing in
news:1110424562.187552.176510@l41g2000cwc.googlegr oups.com:

> I wasn't sending Host.
>
> Incidentally, I've got another bizarre host:
>
> http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/webclient/ch03.html
>
> It sends back HTML which doesn't look like what later
> appears in the browser, e.g. title= MakeZine.com
>
> Do you have any idea what's going on with that?
> Thanks.
>

Sounds like you might have been hijacked. If you're on a windows system,
take a look at your hosts file and see if there is anything suspicious in
it. See <http://www.mvps.org/win2002/hosts.htm> for more info. Also
run a spyware checker, Spybot Search & Destroy is very good
<http://security.kolla.de/>, and I would also run a virus check.

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