Nope. Try it and see. The random string is a nonce value that must match with the current nonce for your site. Security feature.
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Ok so each site gets its own unique identifier?
And as long as that identifier is used, it’ll work?
No it’s a nonce value. Generated by WordPress. It changes periodically. It is random. More infos: https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Nonces
Argh. I wanted to have a collection of manually defined redirects that I pointed to the blackhole. Is there some way I can do this?
Not that I know of off-hand. But the nonce value is available anywhere within WordPress. The name is blackhole_trigger, generated in blackhole-core.php on line 7.
Hmmm. This is what I’m trying to work with:
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Don’t think I can utilize blackhole_trigger in there.
Yeah it doesn’t look like it from the screenshot.
Can you tell me more about that security feature and why it’s needed?
I’d really like to be able to ban an IP automatically for trying to reach a URL included in a large list of exploit URLs.
Basically it’s a security feature that prevents bad actors from exploiting the blackhole functionality. You can take a look at how the nonce is used on line 23 in blackhole-core.php.
