In the IIS logs on our production web server, I am seeing several requests with an exclamation point and a plus sign in the middle of the url ("!+"). Examples...
404 0 which is resource not found and IIS is doing its job.
you need to find out what client/program making those request and why those charset in the request.
Tom - Do you use FTP or manually add/remove files in a FPSE web? I've heard this can cause problems. We have a couple of people using FTP with our website, and it seems like this could cause problems because the indexes in _vti folders aren't updated?
I never use FTP - but I have copied files directly from the file system thereby bypassing the _vti folders. This has never caused a problem either and I don't understand why that would cause an issue with the URLs.
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Exclamation points in request urls
Oct 08, 2007 10:41 AM|MikeOtown|LINK
In the IIS logs on our production web server, I am seeing several requests with an exclamation point and a plus sign in the middle of the url ("!+"). Examples...
/NEWDESIGNS/images/ais_quote_06.gi!+f
/Co!+ntrolPanel/QuotePresenter/DownloadIt.aspx filename=8389_REV_3.sp4
/NEWDES!+IGNS/images/iconpage.gif
/NEWDESIGNS/images/quotefil!+es.gif
/NEWDESIGNS/images/quote!+files.gif
/ControlPanel/QuotePresenter/!+DownloadIt.aspx
/NEW!+DESIGNS/images/spacer.gif
/NEWDESIGNS/ima!+ges/spacer.gif
/DealerEmail/images/arrow-ebrochures-green!+.gif
Any idea why this would happen?
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Re: Exclamation points in request urls
Oct 08, 2007 11:28 AM|tomkmvp|LINK
What client is making those requests?
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
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Re: Exclamation points in request urls
Oct 08, 2007 11:53 AM|MikeOtown|LINK
different clients...
Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+7.0;+Windows+NT+5.1;+.NET+CLR+1.1.4322;+.NET+CLR+2.0.50727)
Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.1;+SV1;+.NET+CLR+2.0.50727)
Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.0)
Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+7.0;+Windows+NT+5.1;+.NET+CLR+1.1.4322;+InfoPath.1;+.NET+CLR+2.0.50727)
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Re: Exclamation points in request urls
Oct 09, 2007 12:18 AM|qbernard|LINK
Pls the complete log entries.
What's the status code? valid request ? known clients ?
Bernard Cheah
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Re: Exclamation points in request urls
Oct 09, 2007 10:07 AM|MikeOtown|LINK
Here are some examples...
#Fields: date time s-sitename s-ip cs-method cs-uri-stem cs-uri-query s-port cs-username c-ip cs(User-Agent) cs(Referer) sc-status sc-substatus sc-win32-status time-taken
2007-10-04 18:11:15 W3SVC609282357 192.168.1.130 GET /NEWDESIGNS/images/quotefil!+es.gif - 80 - 146.145.48.251 Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.1;+SV1;+.NET+CLR+2.0.50727) - 404 0 2 78
2007-10-04 18:11:17 W3SVC609282357 192.168.1.130 GET /NEWDESIGNS/images/quotefil!+es.gif - 80 - 146.145.48.251 Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.1;+SV1;+.NET+CLR+2.0.50727) - 404 0 2 78
2007-10-04 18:14:37 W3SVC609282357 192.168.1.130 GET /ControlPanel/QuotePresenter/!+DownloadIt.aspx filename=Generic_Value_Engineering.pdf 80 - 146.145.48.251 Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.1;+SV1;+.NET+CLR+2.0.50727) - 404 0 0 468
2007-10-04 18:14:58 W3SVC609282357 192.168.1.130 GET /NEWDESIGNS/images/quotefil!+es.gif - 80 - 146.145.48.251 Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.1;+SV1;+.NET+CLR+2.0.50727) - 404 0 2 93
2007-10-04 18:15:13 W3SVC609282357 192.168.1.130 GET /NEWDESIGNS/images/quotefil!+es.gif - 80 - 146.145.48.251 Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.1;+SV1;+.NET+CLR+2.0.50727) - 404 0 2 78
2007-10-04 18:17:45 W3SVC609282357 192.168.1.130 GET /NEWDESIGNS/images/quotefil!+es.gif - 80 - 146.145.48.251 Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.1;+SV1;+.NET+CLR+2.0.50727) - 404 0 2 78
2007-10-04 18:18:01 W3SVC609282357 192.168.1.130 GET /NEWDESIGNS/images/quotefil!+es.gif - 80 - 146.145.48.251 Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.1;+SV1;+.NET+CLR+2.0.50727) - 404 0 2 78
2007-10-04 19:01:48 W3SVC609282357 192.168.1.130 GET /NEWDESIGNS/images/quotefil!+es.gif - 80 - 146.145.48.251 Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.1;+SV1;+.NET+CLR+2.0.50727) - 404 0 2 125
My guess is it's related to FrontPage Server Extensions.
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Re: Exclamation points in request urls
Oct 09, 2007 02:39 PM|tomkmvp|LINK
My client question was more about "where" than "what". Is this happening across the board or in some consistent pattern?
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
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Re: Exclamation points in request urls
Oct 10, 2007 12:36 AM|qbernard|LINK
404 0 which is resource not found and IIS is doing its job.
you need to find out what client/program making those request and why those charset in the request.
Bernard Cheah
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Re: Exclamation points in request urls
Oct 10, 2007 09:36 AM|MikeOtown|LINK
Tom - Do you use FTP or manually add/remove files in a FPSE web? I've heard this can cause problems. We have a couple of people using FTP with our website, and it seems like this could cause problems because the indexes in _vti folders aren't updated?
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Re: Exclamation points in request urls
Oct 11, 2007 08:20 AM|tomkmvp|LINK
I never use FTP - but I have copied files directly from the file system thereby bypassing the _vti folders. This has never caused a problem either and I don't understand why that would cause an issue with the URLs.
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
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Re: Exclamation points in request urls
Oct 11, 2007 10:55 PM|steve schofield|LINK
Look at the c-ip log entry and trace it backwards if this is internal machine.
Steve Schofield
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