newbie question about get requests and page not found
I am studying this pcap file and there are endless occurences of get requests for specific files from user agent wpscan and the exact next capture is a page not found from a smartphone apache browser from the same specific files. I am wondering what this means. the wpscan as i understand is a vulnerability scanner, however how can the files be found on the server and the exact next capture is a page not found for the same files?
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The server could be user agent sniffing and return different responses accordingly.
can you explain this in simpler terms please?
The server is free to return anything it likes in response to a request, normally it would return the expected page as otherwise it isn't a very good server.
By inspecting the incoming request, including elements such as the user agent, the server could modify the returned result. I don't know if this is happening in your capture, but it's possible.