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Re: extra dot on domain name gives different site

From: Eric Marden <security_at_nospam>
Date: Sat Jan 26 2008 - 04:12:51 GMT
To: Robin Wood <dninja@gmail.com>

I've seen it before in my trips around the web. I didn't get a default page, but got 2 different sites with/without a period. But like you said, it probably chokes on it and falls back to the default site or something.

IIS *is* a known issue.

Eric Marden
xentek: enlightened internet solutions
http://xentek.net/

On Jan 23, 2008, at 6:52 AM, Robin Wood wrote:

> Hi
> I've just been looking at a site and accidentally added an extra dot
> to the end of the domain name, rather than getting the site I got a MS
> small business server 2003 admin page.
>
> e.g.
> http://www.site.com gives the real site
> http://www.site.com. gives the admin page
>
> I assume that this is something to do with IIS not parsing the url
> correctly so giving the default website rather than the vhost with
> that address. Is this a known issue? I tried to google but couldn't
> think what to google for!
>
> Robin
>
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