sqlnoob Posted October 14, 2011 Share Posted October 14, 2011 Not sure where to put this, as I can't find the appropriate forum for this, but here goes...... I found this in a URL, like for example: http://www.somesite/somedirectory/'+p+' in my error log Apparently someone or something from Germany thinks that is a page. If I look it up in google in combination with several variances of the url or parts of the url, a lot of Russian and Iranian sites pop up with references towards joomla. By the way for clarity sake, I don't use Joomla nor any rss feed, or any other php based CMS. Does anyone happen to know what it means? Is someone trying to make a sad attempt to hack into a rss-feed that doesn't exist? Or trying to abuse a deprecated function in php? Or trying to abuse a leak of joomla? Or is it something else? I decided to block this IP with htaccess just in case. Any help or directions would be much appreciated. I'm really curious to know what this is. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/249121-p/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
requinix Posted October 14, 2011 Share Posted October 14, 2011 I see those 404s frequently on some sites I maintain, and I can guarantee you they are completely different from your site in every way possible. The conclusion I reached was that somebody wrote a buggy spider (heh) and just hasn't realized it's broken, but if somebody else knows more I'd like to hear too. A bug such as string p = "page"; //string url = "http://www.example.com/somedirectory/index.html"; string url = "http://www.example.com/somedirectory/'+p+'/index.html"; Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/249121-p/#findComment-1279405 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sqlnoob Posted October 15, 2011 Author Share Posted October 15, 2011 hmmm a buggy spider perhaps so... though it keeps coming back on occasion and it doesn't identify itself as a search spider, like for instance google, yahoo, yandex or baidu I really wish to know what this is. Google isn't much of a help I'm afraid. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/249121-p/#findComment-1279600 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Posted October 15, 2011 Share Posted October 15, 2011 it doesn't identify itself as a search spider, like for instance google, yahoo, yandex or baidu Most don't identify themselves as crawlers. Besides the big name ones, most go for spoofing a browser's user agent instead of showing their own. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/249121-p/#findComment-1279615 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sqlnoob Posted October 25, 2011 Author Share Posted October 25, 2011 I see, well bad spider or no spider, its not of any use to me, so I'll keep it blocked for now. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/249121-p/#findComment-1282099 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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