Comments on: Bad Behavior 2.0.24

By: Christopher

Christopher — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 08:05:45 +0000

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By: Christopher

Christopher — Wed, 27 May 2009 15:06:59 +0000

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Bad Behavior / Bad Behaviour: Bad Behavior 2.0.25 — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:35:58 +0000

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By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:18:12 +0000

Michael,
I have Bad Behavior 2.0.24 installed on my WordPress blog running 2.6.2. Did not know if you were aware, but it is blocking a bot that is most likely legitimate but possibly malformed. These requests are coming from 74.205.116.34 which is 128756-web1.hubspot.com.

Hubspot supports tools such as website grader (http://website.grader.com/), but I don’t know how they are related.

Anyway, I get a large number of “Required header ‘Accept’ missing” errors from the IP address above.

Thought you might be interested.

By: scuty

scuty — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:08:37 +0000

Oh … it was just a line in the footer.
I think I missed that. Thanks!

By: tmaster

tmaster — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:59:41 +0000

It is still blocking feedburner. I had to remove my http:BL Access Key to stop it from blocking them.

In the logs it shows.

209.85.138.136

2008-11-11 17:21:31

IP address found on http:BL blacklist GET /xxx/feed/ HTTP/1.0
User-Agent: FeedBurner/1.0 (http://www.FeedBurner.com)
Accept-Encoding: gzip
Pragma: no-cache
Host: http://www.xxxxxxxx.com
Accept: text/html, image/gif, image/jpeg, *; q=.2, */*; q=.2
If-Modified-Since: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:41:15 GMT
Via: 1.1 proxy.google.com:80 (squid)
X-Forwarded-For: unknown
Cache-Control: no-cache, max-age=259200
Connection: keep-alive

By: Michael Hampton

Michael Hampton — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:49:32 +0000

I looked at your blog and it is working fine.

By: scuty

scuty — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:03:09 +0000

‘Display statistics in blog footer’ seems to not work, in Word Press 2.6.3

Maybe I am doing something wrong …

By: Richard Virtue

Richard Virtue — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 18:07:17 +0000

Hi Michael.

You are probably already aware, but in case you’re not, the so-called “embedded web browser component” from bsalsa.com can result in a lot of “error 403″ blocked access attempts.

It modifies the MSIE user agent string to insert an item such as the following:
User-agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; http://bsalsa.com)

That modification, of course, gets blocked by Bad Behavior’s blacklist rejection of all “User-agent” inclusions.

For those who may be experiencing that problem, the MSIE user agent can be restored to its proper default by deleting the following key from the registry:
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\User Agent\Post Platform

More info at http://www.bsalsa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=686