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GShttpBL - block bad bots - morvy - 2016-02-17
Hello everybody,
I've made this small plugin, which uses projecthoneypot.org's http:BL service to detect bots (by IP address) and prevents them from crawling the website by showing (custom) 503 error message. From what I tried, it doesn't affect performance of page (not more than 150ms from my tests on first load).
Credits for great & easy to use script that communicates with http:BL API go to Thasmo
How to use this plugin
- Extract to /plugins directory
- Enable plugin
- Go to Plugins/right panel "GShttpBL settings"
- fill in required fields:
- http:BL api-key
- "type" of bot - Suspicious, Harvester, Spammer etc.
- Threat level
- Filtering type
Plugin also logs every IP/visitor type/threat level that was blocked into the log file (accessible from plugin settings).
RE: GShttpBL - block bad bots - joyofweaving.com - 2017-03-26
I'm giving this a try as one of my sites keeps getting hit by comment spammers. (I'm using the "Pages & Comments" plug-in). I have Cloudflare since beta and have been using Project Honeypot since before that but I kept getting spammed. I'm testing this out on the site that gets hit all the time. It seems to be working. The log shows a comment spammer that's been caught. So far, so good. Thank you for this. I hope it keeps working because I was tearing my hair out. <3
RE: GShttpBL - block bad bots - joyofweaving.com - 2017-03-29
Do you know if this includes IPv6 type IP addresses? Working nicely so far except for an IPv6 type IP address got past it.
RE: GShttpBL - block bad bots - morvy - 2017-03-29
Hello, as far as I know, honeypot can work only with IPv4 addresses so that's why IPv6 got past it
PS: thanks for the feedback
RE: GShttpBL - block bad bots - joyofweaving.com - 2017-04-16
You're very much welcome. I'm happy to say that a lot of the spam stopped once I blocked Yandex. The rest are stopped by this plug-in with the threat level set to 9. Rarely does one get past that and it won't block good search engines. THANK YOU for saving my sanity!