[imp] error_log contains parts of email messages

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting jef e <jef_umd at umd.umich.edu>:

> We've been seeing a lot of messages similar to the following in our
> apache error_logs:
>
> Word 'gt;<br ' contains illegal characters
>
> Word 'gt; sue<br ' contains illegal characters
>
> Word 'gt;<br ' contains illegal characters
>
> Word 'gt; -- <br ' contains illegal characters
>
>
> These examples are just small snippets, but sometimes there are entire
> paragraphs of people's email in the logs. Obviously this is a
> confidentiality concern, and I'd like to know what we can do to stop
> this from happening. I haven't been able to turn anything up in the
> archives or on Google, so I'm hoping someone might have an idea of where
> to look.
>
> I've lowered apache's logging to 'error', but since we have just done a
> new installation using apache2 and some new server hardware, we don't
> want to completely turn down logging.
>
> Thanks for any ideas,

Maybe generated by your spell checker backend?  Spell checking didn't  
really work with HTML until HEAD.

michael

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