UA modified by mail provider leads to banning of visitor, how to unblock?

  • carbeck

    (@carbeck)


    8 years, 11 months ago

    I received multiple visits that look very much like made by a human being today, and they were all blocked for “User-Agent claimed to be MSIE, with invalid Windows version”:

    Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Win32; GMX); (gmx/1.1.0.21); (webde/1.1.0.22); .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET4.0C; (gmx/1.0.0.8))

    GMX and Web.de are German freemail providers who annoyingly offer their own branded versions of popular browsers (though IE8 sure is kind of old by now, and this is the first time I’ve seen this), and apparently they’re also changing the UA. Is there a way for me to circumvent blocking in these cases? What kind of error message would this user have received?

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/bad-behavior/

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