.Hash, what does it meen

[James46]

- [04/May/2004:03:44:24 -0400] "GET /.hash=5e357daaaa5af55bb46fc3968807348039f0e4d5 HTTP/1.1" 302 365 "-" "-"

Can some one tell me why this does not return an error. I know the 302 is Moved Temporarily, so what are they moveing. If I type that .hash in the address bar I get a 404 error.

Thanks to any who reply!

[encyclo]

It seems to be something to do with Kazaa traffic tunneled via port 80 (HTTP) to avoid port-blocking, etc.

The only I found was this [securityfocus.com] which mentions such requests. Hope that explains it. You may well want to try and block such requests with mod_rewrite, however.