Lunacy Unleashed

Notes from the field in the War on Spam

Syndic8 and PubSub blocked by Bad Behavior 1.2.4

I’ve received several reports that the crawlers used by Syndic8 and PubSub are being blocked by the latest version of Bad Behavior.

The denial message reads, Header ”Pragma” without ”Cache-Control” prohibited for HTTP/1.1 requests.

(This is part of a series of new tests for spambots which claim to use the HTTP/1.1 protocol but actually do not do so properly.)

The trouble has been traced to a problem with those particular bots, and Syndic8 and PubSub have been notified.

Until they are able to fix their bots, you can add them to Bad Behavior’s whitelist.

Update: If you’re being blocked by Bad Behavior, don’t comment here. Read this.

December 4, 2005 Posted by | WordPress.com | 21 Comments

   

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