Re: [cobalt-users] Who's been stealing my graphics?

[Revd Leonard Payne <vicarage@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 16/9/03 17:49, Dan Kriwitsky at list1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>>> This morning at around 1:15am  UK time, some bozo trashed all
>>> my auctions.
>>> 
>> 

Thanks for your replies folks:

The Situation was that I have some auctions running on eBay but I host the
pictures on my own Raq.  So someone decided to go onto eBay and click on ALL
my auctions, which were  BUY IT NOWS  and essentially bought them all - then
disappeared.

I thought to myself, well seeing as Im hosting the graphics, what does the
log file say

Thanks for the ideas where to look but eventually I went to

/home/sites/sitex/logs/web.log

and behold - I found around the time I wanted

123.123.123.123 - - [16/Sep/2003:01:27:31 +0100] "GET /newebayad/dump3.jpg
HTTP/1.0" 302 231 
"http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2432951060";
"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 4.0)"

I can now trace that IP address which happens NOT to reside on a dial-up
service but in a government department - My guess the programmer on night
shift.

Wait till his Boss comes in tomorrow !!


or .......  putting on my other hat ........

bless those who curse you


Blessings
Revd Leonard