In the last few days my BPS security log was growing like crazy. Here is one of the error messages:
>>>>>>>>>>> 403 GET or Other Request Error Logged – 7. März 2013 – 01:39 <<<<<<<<<<<
REMOTE_ADDR: 80.171.161.54
Host Name: d161054.adsl.hansenet.de
HTTP_CLIENT_IP:
HTTP_FORWARDED:
HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR:
HTTP_X_CLUSTER_CLIENT_IP:
REQUEST_METHOD: GET
HTTP_REFERER:
REQUEST_URI: /feed/
QUERY_STRING:
HTTP_USER_AGENT: Monotony/17 CFNetwork/596.2.3 Darwin/12.2.0 (x86_64) (MacBookPro8%2C2)
These are the only entries in the log. Only while accessing /feed/
I switched the feeds to Feedburner with a proper redirect but still these errors did pop up.
I found another thread about the ‘facebookexternal’-problems and I temporarily solved the issue by including the following line in BPS 403.php file:
if ($_SERVER[‘REQUEST_METHOD’] != ‘POST’ && !preg_match(‘/facebookexternalhit(.*)/s’, $_SERVER[‘HTTP_USER_AGENT’], $matches) && !preg_match(‘/Monotony(.*)/s’, $_SERVER[‘HTTP_USER_AGENT’], $matches) ) {
Any idea what could be wrong instead of some stupid RSS-reader gone wild!?
Best
Alex
