On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 15:52, Murray W <mursem...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, I have a few questions about how to report and notify your group of > a application abusing websites. > > On the 28th and 29th I saw an interesting useragent and a Google IP address > listed in my banned IP connections due to website abuse. > > Abuse Report Date: 7/28/2011 1:49:31 PM PSTIP: 64.233.172.1 Net Block: > 64.233.160.0 - 64.233.191.255 > Application: http://aking-741.appspot.com/ > Spam type: Pharmaceutical Link Spam Posted > UserAgent: mozilla/4.0 (compatible; msie 6.0; windows nt 5.1; sv1) > appengine-google; (+http://code.google.com/appengine; appid: aking-741) > > This application clearly ran from a Google AppEngine server and if the > useragent appid can not be modify it would appear this is the offender > (aking-741) > > Q1: Can the appid be modified to show anothers application ID?
no. > Q2: Can the AppEngine group create some type of abuse reporting API? http://code.google.com/appengine/kb/general.html#violation > Q3: If IP addresses used by the AppEngine are banned by individual website > owners will this have any effect on legitimate apps? yes. > Q4: Are the IP addresses for the AppEngine used only for the appengine group > or are these servers shared with other Google projects? > > The main reason I'm asking your group is because I'm seeing more of the IP > addresses in the block above listed in blacklists online. If the > Applications are specific and having the IP banned does not effect valid > applications then all is good in the world. If not, AppEngine, we may have a > problem. > Thanks for your time. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/-/QVJCGP-iwy0J. > To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.