Re: [squid-users] Open Relay

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 07:39:04 +0200

On Thursday 24 April 2003 03.23, Tony Melia (DMS) wrote:
> I don't understand how squid can accept and process a mail on port
> 8080 or whatever port squid is listening on. I would expect it
> would reject anything that is not a http request?????

It is trivial to disguise a SMPT setting within a HTTP request, making
a HTTP request which if directed to a SMTP server will deliver email.

See another response a few days back.

Regards
Henrik

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Received on Wed Apr 23 2003 - 23:38:49 MDT

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