BUG: Inverse Selection sends 403 to Search Engines!

  • Resolved mailworm

    (@mailworm)


    7 years, 7 months ago

    Hi there,

    I just stumpled upon some of my search console properties being all out of sudden “not confirmed” anymore. I investigated a little and found the iQ Block Country plugin to be the reason under special circumstances.

    Tab: Frontend
    Option checked: Inverse the selection above: If you select this option only the countries that are selected are allowed.

    This is causing Google and Co to receive an 403 error instead of 200.

    Important: It does not matter, if You have every option checked under tab “search engines” or not!

    Proof: Before deactivation of the plugin Google Search Console refused to accept the confirmation on various ways (HTML-Tag, Google Analytics Property, etc). Once deactivated all went ok and Google accepted the verification.

    Kindly fix as soon as possible!

    Regards,
    Thomas,
    Dfmn! Webdesign
    Berlin

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  • Plugin Author Pascal

    (@iqpascal)

    7 years, 7 months ago

    Hi,

    Can you supply the raw logfiles of the 403 google and others got?

    The proof is not really proof as it only allows the Google Bot for instance not the Google Site Verification.

    Thread Starter mailworm

    (@mailworm)

    7 years, 7 months ago

    Here You are:

    66.249.93.153 – – [08/Sep/2016:17:46:48 +0200] “GET / HTTP/1.1” 403 1439 “-” “M
    ozilla/5.0 (compatible; Google-Site-Verification/1.0)”

    Additionally although not blocked as per my settings the following RX 403s:

    180.76.15.11 – – [09/Sep/2016:06:12:07 +0200] “GET / HTTP/1.1” 403 1402 “-” “Mo
    zilla/5.0 (compatible; Baiduspider/2.0; +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.htm
    l)”

    Plugin Author Pascal

    (@iqpascal)

    7 years, 7 months ago

    Hi,

    The first is the Google Site Verification that was not in the Search Engines list (and thus could not not be allowed).

    The other one is the Baidu spider which was not in the search engines list either.

    Search engines that are not listed can always be added. I’ve added both for the next release.

    Thread Starter mailworm

    (@mailworm)

    7 years, 7 months ago

    Great news! Thanks for Your fast interaction!

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