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Date: 2008jun9

Q.  Why does Slashdot access a file called "ok.txt" on my site?

A.  It appears they do this when somebody posts anonymously
to see if they are coming from an open proxy.

You can make a file called ok.txt (that contains simply "OK") in your
webserver's root folder to avoid error messages.

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http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/09/1621232
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