[Xitami] devices problem
Francis Turner
xitami@lists.xitami.org
Sat, 29 Dec 2001 14:41:12 +0100
Jason Ozin at Technica Solutions wrote:
>Ewen says:
>
> > Can anyone else reproduce this issue on another version of Windows?
>
>I would remind you that I can produce a similar effect see our previous
>thread:
>RE: [Xitami] DoS Bug still in v2.4d9 (W2K service)
>
I have now just reproduced Jason's bug. http://localhost/lpt1 kills
xitami if a printer is installed on win2k
http://localhost/aux gives 403 as one might expect. However the lpt1
problem only seems to apply to localhost. In otherwords a remote machine
doing http://myhost/lpt1 gets the expected 403
Francis
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