This user was blocked but says he is innocent

Regular Joined: Jun 08, 2004 Posts: 64

Code:

Blocked IP: 81.99.48.173 


User: Anonymous 


Agent: Mozilla/2.0 (compatible; MS FrontPage 4.0) 


Abuse Blocked on: 2004-07-15 01:43:56 


Notes: Added by Sentinel™ 


Reason: Abuse - AGENT 


  


Query String: [ Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! ] 


Forwarded For: 81.99.48.173 


Client IP: none 


Remote Address: 62.254.64.15 


Remote Port: 13327 


Request Method: GET

on our testsite for themes, The user emailed me right after he/she was blocked with this.

Quote:

Hi

I've had my IP blocked, not certain of why. Only thing I can think of is I tried to look at the Cobalt theme in Front Page to see how the headers were done. No harm in that?

Best regards.

THoTH [ Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! ]
2004-07-15

the query string (index.php?t=55) is simply a selection of theme#51 from the selection drop down. They said they tried to look at the thee in front page to see how the headers were done. Maybe Front page executed some sort of command Sentinel didin't like?

Any ideas?

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Aug 27, 2002 Posts: 17088

Look at the reason: ABUSE - AGENT, not his uri. Run it through the Agent Inspector and then adjust your Harvester block accordingly.

Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2004 2:54 pm

Thanks for the reply.
Agent Inspector says:

Quote:

There is no obvious match for ==> [ Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! ]

That doesn't help me. How then do I know how to adjust my Harvester Block? And are you talking about the list of Harvesters or set my Harvester block settings to OFF?

yes I substituted mysite.com for my actual url.

Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2004 2:58 pm

Put the AGENT string in, not the URI.

Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2004 3:04 pm

ok..well, it's frontpage..I guess I could have figured that out Rolling Eyes