[Zope] zope, curious http requests, apache

[Stuart Robinson]

Hello all,

I'm having my second 'play' with zope, this time round however I've go it 
exposed to the world through port 80 (running on port 80), firewalled etc. 

I notices in Zope's output stream in the terminal window this evening a 
curious "ZServer Bad HTTP request: 'GET 
/default.ida?XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX%u9090%
u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%u6858%ucbd3%u7801%u9090%
u9090%u8190%u00c3%u0003%u8b00%u531b%u53ff%u0078%u0000%u00=a  HTTP/1.0'" ... 
which if I'm not mistaken is a deliberate or scripted attack?  

1st question: This is nothing to worry about with zope, right?
2nd question: is runing zope behind Apache any help?, and if so (while I 
appreciate it is not trivial), what sort of things should I look out for? 
Does anyone know of an 'everymans[!] guide to setting up apache and not doing 
it the WRONG way'? (sorry that's probably my quota of questions tonight I 
know!) :-)

Thanks in advance for any advice.

Stu