HttpException Path 'zGET' is forbidden. [modified]
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This is a strange one, I've found nothing on Google etc as yet... I'm finding an error in my error logs more and more frequently, it's an http exception with the error message: Exception message: Path 'zGET' is forbidden. It only seems to happen against images, and the first instance I've found of it is from back in mid march this year. It doesn't correspond with any changes on our web server as that hasn't been touched since before then (not even for critical updates.. but that's another issue I have altogether..) My first thought was that it was an actual permissions problem, as we've had that on another server, and resetting the permissions on the affected images did seem to solve the issue when we saw it first hand, however, I think it was a coincidence as the other logged errors weren't spotted by us and so resolved themselves. It's a windows 2003 server, iis6, website's .net 3.5 It doesn't seem to be browser specific, first one I found was for opera 9.23 on linux. But we ad it happening on chrome, IE9, IE8, FF 3.5 too.. Has anyone heard of anything like this before, it has me and my colleagues somewhat stumped at present. Thanks in advance for any help. Mark
modified on Tuesday, December 7, 2010 5:47 AM
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This is a strange one, I've found nothing on Google etc as yet... I'm finding an error in my error logs more and more frequently, it's an http exception with the error message: Exception message: Path 'zGET' is forbidden. It only seems to happen against images, and the first instance I've found of it is from back in mid march this year. It doesn't correspond with any changes on our web server as that hasn't been touched since before then (not even for critical updates.. but that's another issue I have altogether..) My first thought was that it was an actual permissions problem, as we've had that on another server, and resetting the permissions on the affected images did seem to solve the issue when we saw it first hand, however, I think it was a coincidence as the other logged errors weren't spotted by us and so resolved themselves. It's a windows 2003 server, iis6, website's .net 3.5 It doesn't seem to be browser specific, first one I found was for opera 9.23 on linux. But we ad it happening on chrome, IE9, IE8, FF 3.5 too.. Has anyone heard of anything like this before, it has me and my colleagues somewhat stumped at present. Thanks in advance for any help. Mark
modified on Tuesday, December 7, 2010 5:47 AM
markymark82 wrote:
Has anyone heard of anything like this before
Sort of, yes - along these lines[^] - but I assume you've looked into that....?
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markymark82 wrote:
Has anyone heard of anything like this before
Sort of, yes - along these lines[^] - but I assume you've looked into that....?
I'd had a brief look into that, and have seen the solution is to add in a handler such as:
< add path="*" verb="OPTIONS" type="System.Web.DefaultHttpHandler" validate="true"/>Obviously I'd need to change the verb OPTIONS to zGET, but all I've seen so far have been references to verbs used by webdav, which I confess I know nothing about. I have found no reference to this zGET though and am wondering what could be causing this request. I'm not keen on adding a handler for a verb I can't find any reference to, at least not until I know it's an innocent http request. Thanks for the link -
This is a strange one, I've found nothing on Google etc as yet... I'm finding an error in my error logs more and more frequently, it's an http exception with the error message: Exception message: Path 'zGET' is forbidden. It only seems to happen against images, and the first instance I've found of it is from back in mid march this year. It doesn't correspond with any changes on our web server as that hasn't been touched since before then (not even for critical updates.. but that's another issue I have altogether..) My first thought was that it was an actual permissions problem, as we've had that on another server, and resetting the permissions on the affected images did seem to solve the issue when we saw it first hand, however, I think it was a coincidence as the other logged errors weren't spotted by us and so resolved themselves. It's a windows 2003 server, iis6, website's .net 3.5 It doesn't seem to be browser specific, first one I found was for opera 9.23 on linux. But we ad it happening on chrome, IE9, IE8, FF 3.5 too.. Has anyone heard of anything like this before, it has me and my colleagues somewhat stumped at present. Thanks in advance for any help. Mark
modified on Tuesday, December 7, 2010 5:47 AM
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the only ZGET things I can find are a PHP function (which sounds like something you don't want happening), and a Trojan downloader. Maybe folks with infected computers are browsing your site?
hmmm.. That's all we could find too.. I which case I guess I'll just ignore it for now, just a shame as it's about the only error we seem to be getting now days. Thanks for the input folks. Mark