Ok,
Just done a test post and now I understand why this is happening.
The redirection code in Spam Karma 2 is not sending back a fully qualified url for the second-chance page.
When your browser tries to follow the link it can’t because it’s not fully qualified and so it may helpfully try a “I’m feeling lucky” lookup in google and take you there – like if you miss type something in the url bar.
The url that gets returned in the redirect is:
HTTP/1.x 302 Found
Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 18:42:01 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.53
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.11
Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT
Last-Modified: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 18:42:02 GMT
Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate
Pragma: no-cache
Location: //wp-content/plugins/SK2/sk2_second_chance.php?c_id=148&c_author=example%40example.com
Connection: close
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html
The browser then does this:
http://www.google.com/search?btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=wp-content
GET /search?btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=wp-content HTTP/1.1
Host: http://www.google.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive
Cookie: PREF=ID=27664863d4f98241:CR=1:TM=1114451930:LM=1117277536:L=0AA:S=n5Wt5n6iGz-2mY63
HTTP/1.x 302 Found
Location: http://coding.mu/wp-content/mvcdemo.htm
Cache-Control: private
Content-Type: text/html
Server: GWS/2.1
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Encoding: gzip
Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 18:42:04 GMT
Which sends you to the site in question coding.mu – This is the first result for the following Google Search: wp-content
The following workaround will allow you to use Spam Karma 2:
- Disable the Capatcha Check plugin in the Spam Karma 2 Options pages by setting it’s strength to disabled.
I have contacted the author of Spam Karma 2 zedrdave and hopefully a fix for this issue will be available soon!
westi
