{"id":12178789,"date":"2019-11-26T22:00:03","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T22:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/block-ips-that-access-these-urls\/"},"modified":"2019-11-26T22:00:03","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T22:00:03","slug":"block-ips-that-access-these-urls","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/block-ips-that-access-these-urls\/","title":{"rendered":"Block IPs that access these URLS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>please see my previous support ticket: Question about Immediately block IPs that access these URLs.  I wasn&#8217;t sure if it actually reopened it so I&#8217;ve added this new request.<\/p>\n<p>I added \/ecwd_calendar\/* to the Immediately block IP\u2019s that access these URLS option and it is the only URL that I\u2019ve added there. However, it appears that MSN crawlers are getting blocked by this rule when trying to access other URLs. See the following example<br \/>\nUnited States was blocked for Accessed a banned URL at https:\/\/www.MYDOMAINNAME.ca\/tutorial-from-watercolours-to-pastel\/<br \/>\n11\/26\/2019 12:55:14 PM (1 hour 44 mins ago)<br \/>\nIP: 207.46.13.39 Hostname: msnbot-207-46-13-39.search.msn.com<br \/>\nHuman\/Bot: Bot<br \/>\nBrowser: undefined<br \/>\nMozilla\/5.0 (compatible; bingbot\/2.0; +http:\/\/www.bing.com\/bingbot.htm)<br \/>\nDo you know why this would happen?<br \/>\nKathy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-12178789","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/12178789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/12178789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12178789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}