Bad Behavior blocks everything !

You need to be careful how you use it otehrwise genuine posters would
be blocked as well!

Larry

On 12/4/05, Kelson Vibber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just a heads-up.
>
> I upgraded a spambot-blocking plugin for WordPress called Bad Behavior
> yesterday, and it's now blocking Syndic8.  I assume it's related to the
> upgrade, though it could be a coincidence if Syndic8's bot changed around the
> same time.
>
> Bad Behavior works by targetting the following:
> 1. Known spambots
> 2. Mismatches between headers (i.e. the UA claims to be MSIE, but the agent
> doesn't send all the headers that IE does.)
> 3. HTTP Protocol violations, which seems to be where Syndic8 is getting caught
>
> http://www.ioerror.us/software/bad-behavior/
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> The log entry states: "Header 'Pragma' without 'Cache-Control' prohibited for
> HTTP/1.1 requests"
>
> For now I've whitelisted the IP address, but I thought you might want to know
> so you can either fix the headers (if this is a valid problem) or contact the
> plugin author to get Syndic8 recognized explicitly.
>
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> Kelson Vibber
> www.hyperborea.org
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