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Reply to topic   Topic: Looking for people with IIS and nginx on Win
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glsmith
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PostPosted: Wed 21 Jun '17 2:58    Post subject: Looking for people with IIS and nginx on Win Reply with quote

I would like to find out how IIS and nginx on Windows reacts to http://domain/con

On Windows "con" is reserved for some reason and you cannot create a directory named con or any file named con regardless of the extension or none at all. So on Windows this file/directory name cannot exist and therefor one would think we would get a 404 right?

Wrong, at least Apache on Windows it gives a 403. I'd like to know how the other web servers deal with it.

This only happens on Windows as *nix doesn't have this reserved word.
http://www.apache.org/con

The 403 is technically correct but can be used to see if there's an Apache on Windows answering (fingerprinting).

While I could set up an IIS and nginx on my own computers, I'd rather not have to just to test a single URL.

TIA

By the way I'm not making anything public that isn't already out in the wild.
https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55887

3 and a half years now and I cannot understand how I've missed seeing this in all that time. While I don't venture into bugzilla as much as I should, I've looked through it many times since that was posted.
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yosoyminero



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PostPosted: Wed 21 Jun '17 14:20    Post subject: Reply with quote

If you want to experiment with Nginx and IIS Express, you can try with xtack.

Check out https://xtack.org
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admin
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PostPosted: Wed 21 Jun '17 15:34    Post subject: Reply with quote

@yosoyminero : maybe you can verify it for Gregg ?
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mraddi



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PostPosted: Wed 21 Jun '17 22:30    Post subject: Reply with quote

Checked NginX 1.13.1.1 x32 (and Apache 2.4.26 x64) on Windows 7 x64.
Access to http://localhost/con (=Apache) results in a 403 (as already mentioned by glsmith).
Access to http://localhost:1080/con (=NginX) results in a 500 with the following message in the error.log:
Code:
2017/06/21 22:23:43 [crit] 7360#1128: *1 GetFileInformationByHandle() "c:/srv/www/con" failed (6: FormatMessage() error:(15100)), client: 127.0.0.1, server: localhost, request: "GET /con HTTP/1.1", host: "localhost:1080"
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glsmith
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PostPosted: Thu 22 Jun '17 1:34    Post subject: Reply with quote

@mraddi

Thank you, the GetFileInformationByHandle() "c:/srv/www/con" failed I would expect. 500 seems odd though not really incorrect. Nor the 403 from Apache cause nothing can get to anything named con in Windows.
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glsmith
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PostPosted: Thu 22 Jun '17 1:48    Post subject: Reply with quote

I figured out a way to get IIS's responses thanks to the SSLLabs server test. I've often looked at failed tests and remember of those I've looked at overs the years there have been many IIS servers being tested. There's plenty of everything failing but I can easily get URLs for IIS this way where I cannot find out what OS an nginx is running on unless maybe I also check with netcraft.

So far I've uncovered IIS/6 403s, IIS/10 404s. I had a IIS/7.5 to try but it erred and then erred again when trying to serve me up a custom error document so that ruined that server.
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glsmith
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PostPosted: Sat 24 Jun '17 1:24    Post subject: Reply with quote

After backing backing up everything important and not caring if my hard drive dies (Windows is warning) I went and read the other info linked in the bug report and it looks worse.

aux|con|com[1-9]|lpt[1-9]|nul|prn

All are reserved so I've added them to the patch I worked up for this PR. For the uber paranoid until this makes it to 2.4 (if ever) here it is

Edit: Patch removed, back to drawing board.
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