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Bad Behavior 1.1.4

July 2nd, 2005 by Michael Hampton

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Bad Behavior 1.1.4 has been released.

This release fixes a problem with the W3C Validator being blocked inadvertently. The downside is you’re going to get a few more spammers who were also being blocked. A more permanent solution is in the works, but this should get you XHTML freaks who revalidate your pages daily back in business.

If you don’t care at all about the W3C Validator then feel free to use 1.1.3 as it may block a few more spammers than 1.1.4. This will be resolved in a future release.

First, say “I Hate Perl” three times, and then Download Bad Behavior now!

11 Responses to “Bad Behavior 1.1.4”

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    XHTML Freak Says

    What the previous commenter wrote. Good job!

    Jul 2nd, 2005 at 1:36 pm   

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    Bryan Says

    Phew! I was wondering what was up with that. What a coincidence that I checked for validation when Bad Behavior was blocking that from happening. I was puzzled for a bit. :lol:

    Jul 2nd, 2005 at 2:12 pm   

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    Jonathan Lundell Says

    The version string still says 1.1.3.

    Jul 2nd, 2005 at 3:45 pm   

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    MacManX Says

    The version available for download here does identify itself as v1.1.3, but the v1.1.4 change has been made, so just change line #4 of bad-behavior-wordpress.php to:

    Version: 1.1.4

    Jul 2nd, 2005 at 4:51 pm   

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    MeeCiteeWurkor Says

    I hate Perl. I hate Perl. I hate Perl.
    Ok, I will download! Thank you for this fix!

    Jul 2nd, 2005 at 12:25 pm   

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    Michael Hampton Says

    OK, I updated the download file, and it now has the correct version string. Sorry! I was in a hurry to get this thing out the door. :)

    Jul 2nd, 2005 at 5:40 pm   

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    joss Says

    Thanks for the speedy update IO error.much Kudos to ya…

    Jul 3rd, 2005 at 1:37 pm   

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    Nils Lindenberg Says

    Hi io_error,
    don’t know if you know it already, but what about http://www.netcraft.com/survey/ bot which identifies itself as Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; Netcraft Web Server Survey)?

    It gets blocked and I think thats a false positive, isn’t it? Anyway, thnak you for your work :)

    Jul 13th, 2005 at 1:06 pm   

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    Michael Hampton Says

    Nils, I’ve known about this for some time; it’s just been very low priority as this is actually Netcraft’s fault. They should not be advertising their bot as “Mozilla.” :)

    Jul 13th, 2005 at 8:51 pm   

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    Nils Lindenberg Says

    Thanks for the fast response!

    Another question :) :

    What do you expect function wp_bb_db_query($query) to return, if the query was just succesfull without returning data, i.e. for the CREATE ALTER queries?

    Jul 14th, 2005 at 2:06 pm   

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    Michael Hampton Says

    Heh, you’re just lucky. This isn’t the place to post if you want a fast response. :) The function should return the number of rows affected by or returned by the query, or FALSE if the query failed.

    Jul 14th, 2005 at 8:33 pm