Bad Behavior 1.2.3
October 23rd, 2005 by Michael Hampton
Bad Behavior 1.2.3, the latest release of the Web’s premier link spam killer, has been released.
From version 1.2.2, the following changes have been made:
- Several additional spambots, mostly causing trackback spam, have been fingerprinted and blocked.
- Bad Behavior 1.2.2 introduced a requirement that user agents present a User-Agent header. This caused quite a few unexpected things to break, and has been changed in this release. A User-Agent header will now be required only for POST requests.
There were a couple of other changes and enhancements I wanted to put in, but I decided to let them wait; I’ve begun work on version 2.0 of Bad Behavior, which will incorporate these changes. If you e-mailed me and didn’t see your change in here, this is why.
Anyways, it’s that time again, so download Bad Behavior now!
Simon Says
I haven’t downloaded it yet to check but the list of changes doesn’t mention a log reader. If in fact there still isn’t a log reader included you can use my home grown Bad Behaviour log reader.
If for some reason the database structure has been changed (which I find unlikely) and the log reader doesn’t work any more rest assured I’ll update it this week.
Simon
Oct 24th, 2005 at 3:37 am
Geof F. Morris Says
Michael: Your own hotlinking protection is working against you.
Oct 24th, 2005 at 5:59 pm
Michael Hampton Says
Geof, sorry, but you will need to copy the images to your server to use them. They’re hotlink protected to ensure that the images are copied, rather than simply linked.
If you’re seeing the alternate image here, the trouble is in your computer’s browser-privacy software, and you should get that fixed.
Oct 24th, 2005 at 6:22 pm
Geof F. Morris Says
Well, I don’t hotlink images, so that wasn’t my problem. As to your comment about the latter, I’m really not sure what you’re getting at, but the alternate image isn’t showing up here anymore.
Oct 24th, 2005 at 8:44 pm