False 404 errors

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  • Plugin Author John Godley

    (@johnny5)

    2 years, 9 months ago

    The plugin only records 404s as determined by WordPress. They are 404s at the time they are reported, even if later they may be 200.

    Thread Starter Marios Alexandrou

    (@marios-alexandrou)

    2 years, 9 months ago

    Based on your reply, I dug into my access logs. I noticed that the 404 errors were isolated to POST requests and GET requests were fine. Sure enough, when I turned on the column in the plugin’s report, I saw POST requests resulted in 404s and GET requests resulted in 200s. That explains why I couldn’t replicate the error. I’m guessing the POSTs are exploit scans or something and the 404 is WordPress or some security plugin stepping in.

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