Comments on: Bad Behavior 2.0.8 http://www.bad-behavior.ioerror.us/2006/12/15/bad-behavior-208/ Home of the Web's premier link spam killer. Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:22:39 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: john http://www.bad-behavior.ioerror.us/2006/12/15/bad-behavior-208/comment-page-1/#comment-1926 john Fri, 18 May 2007 19:54:13 +0000 http://www.bad-behavior.ioerror.us/2006/12/15/bad-behavior-208/#comment-1926 I've installed badbehaviour v. 2.0.10 and utilised it with the drupal module which has been patched to work with this version. However, I am getting messages saying that major search engines msnbot and googlebot are being banned, eg: _______________________________ IP Addr 66.249.72.228 Hostname crawl-66-249-72-228.googlebot.com (whois) Date 2007-05-18 19:47:16 Request type GET URI /node/923/print Protocol HTTP/1.1 User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html) Headers GET /node/923/print HTTP/1.1 Host: www.eternalpurpose.org.uk Connection: Keep-alive Accept: */* From: googlebot(at)googlebot.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html) Accept-Encoding: gzip Request Entity Denied Reason User-Agent claimed to be Googlebot, claim appears to be false. Explanation An invalid request was received. You claimed to be a major search engine, but you do not appear to actually be a major search engine. Response 403 _______________________________ Can you advise on this? I'm keen to get bb working again with my drupal instal, having had good results with it a year ago. I’ve installed badbehaviour v. 2.0.10 and utilised it with the drupal module which has been patched to work with this version.

However, I am getting messages saying that major search engines msnbot and googlebot are being banned, eg:

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IP Addr 66.249.72.228
Hostname crawl-66-249-72-228.googlebot.com (whois)
Date 2007-05-18 19:47:16
Request type GET
URI /node/923/print
Protocol HTTP/1.1
User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
Headers GET /node/923/print HTTP/1.1 Host: http://www.eternalpurpose.org.uk Connection: Keep-alive Accept: */* From: googlebot(at)googlebot.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html) Accept-Encoding: gzip
Request Entity
Denied Reason User-Agent claimed to be Googlebot, claim appears to be false.
Explanation An invalid request was received. You claimed to be a major search engine, but you do not appear to actually be a major search engine.
Response 403
_______________________________

Can you advise on this? I’m keen to get bb working again with my drupal instal, having had good results with it a year ago.

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