Title: HEAD Request Error Log
Last modified: October 5, 2021

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# HEAD Request Error Log

 *  Resolved [susansiow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/susansiow/)
 * (@susansiow)
 * [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/head-request-error-log/)
 * Dear BPS,
 * Greetings.
 * I’ve been getting a similar error log (as below) for the past few days, is this
   from a theme/plugin?
 *     ```
       BPS SECURITY LOG
       =================
       =================
   
       [BEGIN Total # of Security Log Entries by Type:]
       Total 403 GET Request Log Entries: 1
       Total 405 HEAD Request Log Entries: 524
       [END Total # of Security Log Entries by Type:]
   
       [405 HEAD Request: October 5, 2021 - 3:13 am]
       BPS: 5.2
       WP: 5.8.1
       Event Code: BFHS-HEAD - HEAD Request Blocked
       Solution: https://forum.ait-pro.com/forums/topic/security-log-event-codes/
       REMOTE_ADDR: ***
       Host Name: ***
       SERVER_PROTOCOL: HTTP/1.1
       HTTP_CLIENT_IP: 
       HTTP_FORWARDED: 
       HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR: ***
       HTTP_X_CLUSTER_CLIENT_IP: 
       REQUEST_METHOD: HEAD
       HTTP_REFERER: 
       REQUEST_URI: *** [image url]
       QUERY_STRING: 
       HTTP_USER_AGENT: Java/1.8.0_181
       ```
   

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 *  Plugin Author [AITpro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aitpro/)
 * (@aitpro)
 * [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/head-request-error-log/#post-14940987)
 * The HEAD Request is being made by a bot/crawler > [https://user-agents.net/string/apache-httpclient-4-5-2-java-1-8-0-181](https://user-agents.net/string/apache-httpclient-4-5-2-java-1-8-0-181).
   This is typical bot recon/probing stuff that you can ignore. Nothing legitimate
   is being blocked.
 *  Thread Starter [susansiow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/susansiow/)
 * (@susansiow)
 * [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/head-request-error-log/#post-14941518)
 * Thanks for the confirmation!

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 * Last reply from: [susansiow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/susansiow/)
 * Last activity: [4 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/head-request-error-log/#post-14941518)
 * Status: resolved