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I'm playing around with a free AWS EC2 instance and django.
I accidentally left my development server running overnight (on port 8080). This morning, the connection log shows a few messages like this:
# Me
[16/Aug/2012 19:16:09] "GET /static/img/banner-1.jpg HTTP/1.1" 200 68263
[16/Aug/2012 19:16:09] "GET /static/img/footer.png HTTP/1.1" 200 4261
[16/Aug/2012 19:16:09] "GET /static/img/favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 200 1150
# Not me
[17/Aug/2012 01:33:59] "GET http://www.baidu.com/ HTTP/1.1" 404 1717
[17/Aug/2012 04:13:29] "GET http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbs=qdr:d&prmd=imvns&filter=0&lr=&as_epq=%KEYWORD% HTTP/1.1" 404 1815
[17/Aug/2012 04:13:30] "CONNECT www.google.com:443 HTTP/1.0" 404 1784
What are these messages?
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Message Log means a complete record of the Messages sent and received by the Intermediary, either in computer readable or hard copy format; Sample 1Sample 2Sample 3. Based on 3 documents.
"Messages for web" is the latest messaging service. Similar to Apple's iCloud messaging, it synchronizes with the SMS Messages app on your Android phone, allowing you to send and receive text messages in any browser – even on your desktop PC.
Port 8080 is frequently used for http proxy servers. Some bot that found your development server tried to use it as a normal proxy (the first two GET commands), then as a transparent proxy for https (which is initiated by sending HTTP CONNECT and also explains why it was connecting to google port 443). It was testing to see if your server was an open proxy because open proxies can be used for all sorts of nefarious purposes.
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