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In Topic: DoS Attack, Need help understanding requests from access log

06 August 2011 - 08:02 PM

Would blocking HEAD requests have any consequences with other non-browser visitors, such as crawlers? I've tried finding this out but the documentation is unecessarily technical, doesn't provide a laymans answer. Bottom line is, there are no negatives to blocking head requests like this?
In Topic: DoS Attack, Need help understanding requests from access log

06 August 2011 - 06:18 PM

Hi Jock,

Thanks for the tip, I'll find out the difference between GET and HEAD (so that I know what I'm actually doing ) and then implement that code.

Darren
In Topic: DoS Attack, Need help understanding requests from access log

06 August 2011 - 05:06 PM

Hi BlueDreamer,

Thanks for the prompt reply.

I'm hoping they are just random URL requests and not some vulnerability in WordPress.

There were 898 IP addresses involved in today's DoS attack, the mast majority from one server hosting company, a few from another company. I could go down the route of blocking them via .htaccess but I reckon going to the company and getting them to deal with the problem their end would be a more effective solution. I'll block them if it happens again though.

Thanks,

Darren