Invalid method in request

[sunmacet]

Hello!

I seem to get spammed all the time with invalid method requests:

error_log
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[Wed Jan 16 15:01:21 2008] [error] [client 80.218.252.43] Invalid method in request \xe3C
[Wed Jan 16 15:01:51 2008] [error] [client 80.218.252.43] Invalid method in request \xe3C
[Wed Jan 16 15:02:07 2008] [error] [client 62.38.103.126] Invalid method in request \xe3Q
[Wed Jan 16 15:02:12 2008] [error] [client 192.118.36.9] Invalid method in request \xe3C
[Wed Jan 16 15:02:22 2008] [error] [client 80.218.252.43] Invalid method in request \xe3C
[Wed Jan 16 15:02:49 2008] [error] [client 90.39.69.172] Invalid method in request \xe3O
[Wed Jan 16 15:02:52 2008] [error] [client 80.218.252.43] Invalid method in request \xe3C
[Wed Jan 16 15:02:55 2008] [error] [client 79.181.135.253] Invalid method in request \xe3C
[Wed Jan 16 15:03:00 2008] [error] [client 194.90.216.112] Invalid method in request \xe3C
[Wed Jan 16 15:03:13 2008] [error] [client 82.252.4.172] Invalid method in request \xe3G
[Wed Jan 16 15:03:22 2008] [error] [client 80.218.252.43] Invalid method in request \xe3C
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How to get apache to reject these requests?

Thanks!

 

[unika]

The issue connected with apache configuration file.
Try to localize information in Internet like the following:

http://www.mail-archive.com/modssl-users@modssl.org/msg17516.html
http://www.webservertalk.com/archive54-2004-6-171909.html
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/servers/2861-apache-ssl-invalid-method-request-g.html