The other while checking my Siltide Sitescore the other day, I found that it kept reporting that it couldn’t find my site.
I could see that my blog was working and I was even able to validate it as well. Just meant a probable blocking of the site.
On disabling Bad Behavior I found that I was able to get the score thereby pointing out an error with either Silktide or Bad Behavior.
I checked my logs and found that Silktide gives a blank User-Agent and so Bad Behavior blocks the site. This is something I support because spammers use this attack your site.
Wrote to Silktide and promptly got a reply saying that they will see what they can do with the next version of the software.
Have taken a temporary way out by adding this to the Whitelist, but this will continue to be a problem unless scripts and software start sending correct user-agents.
Afterall, how many IPs am I going to add?
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October 9th, 2005 at 12:28 pm[...] I faced a similar problem with Silktide and added their IP to the whitelist. They plan on fixing this in a future release. I don’t know when that will be and if they will actually do it. [...]
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October 30th, 2005 at 11:01 am[...] It does seem to have fixed the problem I have been facing with SiteScore as I can get my sitescore now even without the IP in the whitelist. [...]
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October 16th, 2005 at 3:00 am
A lot. Silktide keeps changing the IP address they use for their bot.
October 16th, 2005 at 7:08 am
If that is the case, then I am in for a lot of IP adding
Or hopefully they wake up a lot faster and do something about it!