Strange http header ---------------: ----- ------- used by IE6 on

[Guest]

I'm running IE 6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519 on Windows XP Media
Center Edition (2005).

I happened to look at a network trace of http traffic from this system and
noticed a strange header which is always presented in outgoing http requests:

GET / HTTP/1.1
Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg,
application/x-shockwave-flash, application/vnd.ms-excel,
application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, application/msword, */*
Accept-Language: en-us
---------------: ----- -------
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR
1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; Media Center PC 3.1)
Connection: Keep-Alive
Host: www.xxxxxxxx.com

Does anyone have any idea what the strange header "---------------: -----
-------" is doing there?

Thanks.

- Mark Pizzolato

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

....

Does anyone have any idea what the strange header "---------------: -----
-------" is doing there?

Here's how I answered this question the last time it came up:

<some headers>
References: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Norton Internet Security an IE
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 20:21:49 -0500
</some headers>

Accept-Language: en-us
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~: ~~~~~ ~~~~~~~

Here is how I answered the same problem in December.

References: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: 400 Bad Syntax Error
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 16:28:54 -0500

<excerpt>

I think that the line of tildes is likely to be the cause of your symptom.
When I go there I see instead:
<example>
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
</example>

Do you have any third-party programs which might be messing
with that area, e.g. something that might be trying to add its own
compression method and corrupting the rest in the process?

Hmm... another possibility might be something which wanted
to make sure that compression was not going to be used
(e.g., in order to be able to scan or filter out stuff without
having to do its own decompression)

It certainly wouldn't hurt to assume that this could be caused by malware
and do all the necessary scans and tests in preparation for removing
such annoyances.
</excerpt>

I can't remember how this turned out. (I seem to recall a reply.)
Please use the above Message-ID from References:
to do a Google Groups search and then click on View Thread...
E.g. search with:

msgid:[email protected]

Your Subject: would make me suspect that NIS was the culprit.


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle