Hi,
Recently some massive bad image scraping sites started mangling the
requests to the images on my site, I get thousands of requests to urls like:
"/blah/blah/images/Image-5.jpg" width="128" height="49"
alt="image"/></a> </div> <div class="c0 r"><a href="/m/imgres?..."
this is the request uri verbatim, not just a snippet of the html on the
client side...
So google webmaster tools has been reporting tons of Soft 404 on my sites.
The problem is that I have mod_speling enabled and using it only to
correct the case of the url:
CheckSpelling On
CheckCaseOnly On
For some reason the module doesn't behave correctly and offers a 300
response:
--------&<------------&<----------
http://example.com/blah/blah/images/Image-5.jpg%22%20width=%22128%22%20height=%2249%22%20alt=%22image%22/%3E%3C/a%3E%20%3C/div%3E%20%3Cdiv%20class=%22c0%20r%22%3E%3Ca%20href=%22/m/imgres?q=foobar
Multiple Choices
The document name you requested (/blah/blah/images/Image-5.jpg"
width="128" height="49" alt="image"/></a> </div> <div class="c0 r"><a
href="/m/imgres) could not be found on this server. However, we found
documents with names similar to the one you requested.
Available documents:
/blah/blah/images/Image-5.jpg/></a> </div> <div class="c0 r"><a
href="/m/imgres?q=foobar (common basename)
--------&<------------&<----------
The image /blah/blah/images/Image-5.jpg exists on the filesystem.
There are two problems here:
1. Why does it return response 300
2. Why the offered available document is bogus
Turning CheckSpelling off correctly reports this as 404. But then I lose
the ability to correct the spelling of misspelled URLs which is another
huge problem, as many clients don't respect the case-sensitivity of the
urls.
What is the right course of action in this case? Is it a bug in
mod_speling, or am I missing some other configuration?
Server version: Apache/2.2.23 (Unix)
I looked through the svn, there weren't any changes in the last 5 years,
so probably it's pointless trying the very latest version.
(the same problem exists on apache/1.3)
Thank you.
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