403 Bad behavior from "Bad Behavior"?
Development and Programming
I have Bad Behavior installed on a client’s site. It appears to me, though, that this extension is blocking access from Google’s GoogleBot (oh no!)
Using this SEO tool, I see that if I access the site with a User-Agent of Mozilla, I get the site responding fine with a 200. But if I access it as a Google Bot, Bad Behavior kicks me back with a 403 error:
http://www.seoconsultants.com/tools/headers/
Mozilla:
Requesting: http://www.moviemaker.com/
GET / HTTP/1.1
Connection: Keep-Alive
Keep-Alive: 300
Accept:*|*
Host: www.moviemaker.com
Accept-Language: en-us
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0b; Windows NT 6.0)
Server Response: 200 OK
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:49:16 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.59 (Unix)
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.2
Set-Cookie: bb2_screener_=1193698156+216.154.235.143; path=/
Set-Cookie: exp_last_visit=878352556; expires=Tue, 28-Oct-2008 22:49:16 GMT; path=/
Set-Cookie: exp_last_activity=1193712556; expires=Tue, 28-Oct-2008 22:49:16 GMT; path=/
Set-Cookie: exp_tracker=a:1:{i:0;s:5:"index";}; path=/
Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT
Last-Modified: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:49:17 GMT
Pragma: no-cache
Content-Encoding: gzip
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Length: 6196
Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=100
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: text/htmlGooglebot:
Requesting: http://www.moviemaker.com/
GET / HTTP/1.1
Connection: Keep-Alive
Keep-Alive: 300
Accept:*|*
Host: www.moviemaker.com
Accept-Language: en-us
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
Server Response: 403 Bad Behavior
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:48:59 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.59 (Unix)
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.2
Status: 403 Bad Behavior
Content-Length: 886
Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=100
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: text/htmlI’m running EE 1.6.0 Build: 20070918 and Bad Behavior 2 Extension (v.2.0.0) with Bad Behavior 2.0.10.
I’ve disabled it on my site, and I encourage others to check out and see if Bad Behavior blocks Google from visiting your site…
TTFN Travis
I’m running 1.6.1 and just updated BB to 2.0.11 - only to disable it after finding this post, and realizing that it does indeed block Googlebot.
And probably has been for some time now. Splendid. Just splendid.
Damn!
Is this something people using BadBehavior on other systems are seen as well? BadBehavior is a port from WordPress isn’t it?
Jamie