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Bug 15474 - Spambots accessing Special:Ask
Spambots accessing Special:Ask
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Classification: Unclassified
Semantic MediaWiki (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Lowest enhancement (vote)
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Assigned To: Markus Krötzsch
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Depends on:
Blocks:
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Reported: 2008-09-04 14:48 UTC by DaSch
Modified: 2008-09-05 14:07 UTC (History)
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Assignee Huggle Beta Tester: ---


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Description DaSch 2008-09-04 14:48:20 UTC
Tahts not really a bug, but I've seen on my page that there are many visites on Spezial:Ask with somehow strang parameters. So there are Bots how are trying to spam on the Spezial:Ask pages, maybe there is a possibility to omit this
Comment 1 Markus Krötzsch 2008-09-05 06:19:11 UTC
Could you specify what it is that you want? SMW cannot prevent web accesses to certain URLs on your site.
Comment 2 DaSch 2008-09-05 11:32:08 UTC
1. My Intention was to point at this problem
2. I dont't know how such "queries are handeld"
"http://www.wecowi.org/view/Spezial:Ask?title=Spezial%3AAsk&q=&po=%3FComment2%2C+http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mimundo.americaonline.com.mx%2Ffjly19ble%2Fholiday-inn-downtown-san-antonio-763.html+holiday+inn+downtown+san+antonio%2C+7375%2C+http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mimundo.americaonline.com.mx%2Ffjly19ble%2Ffem-pops-207.html+fem+pops%2C%3D(%2C+http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mimundo.americaonline.com.mx%2Ffjly19ble%2Fdescriptive-inferential-727.html+descriptive+inferential%2C++%3D-PP%2C+http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mimundo.americaonline.com.mx%2Ffjly19ble%2Fbadkamer-en-language-language-nl-showroom-728.html+badkamer+en+language+language+nl+showroom%2C++045678%2C+http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mimundo.americaonline.com.mx%2Ffjly19ble%2Frocky-river-high-school-ohio-353.html+rocky+river+high+school+ohio%2C++58462%2C+http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mimundo.americaonline.com.mx%2Ffjly19ble%2Fcar-comparison-new-price-354.html+car+comparison+new+price%2C++%3E%3A)%2C+http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mimundo.americaonline.com.mx%2Ffjly19ble%2Fholiday-dinner-recipe-257.html+holiday+dinner+recipe%2C++%3DOOO%2C+http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mimundo.americaonline.com.mx%2Ffjly19ble%2Fkentucky-bass-federation-690.html+kentucky+bass+federation%2C++akygrx%2C+http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mimundo.americaonline.com.mx%2Ffjly19ble%2Fein-number-verify-381.html+ein+number+verify%2C++936240%2C+http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mimundo.americaonline.com.mx%2Ffjly19ble%2Freservoir-dog-poster-684.html+reservoir+dog+poster%2C++55727%2C+http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mimundo.americaonline.com.mx%2Ffjly19ble%2Ftweety-valentine-wallpaper-98.html+tweety+valentine+wallpaper%2C++rvtq%2C+http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mimundo.americaonline.com.mx%2Ffjly19ble%2Fshawn-parker-405.html+shawn+parker%2C++%3A[[[%2C%0A&sc=0&eq=yes"

"http://www.wecowi.org/view/Spezial:Ask?title=Spezial%3AAsk&q=&po=%3FComment6%2C+http%3A%2F%2Fhometown.aol.co.uk%2Ff9279eo4x%2Fnonfunction-118.html+nonfunction%2C+rkydg%2C+http%3A%2F%2Fhometown.aol.co.uk%2Ff9279eo4x%2Feast-greenwich-rhode-island-public-schools-594.html+east+greenwich+rhode+island+public+schools%2C%3D(((%2C+http%3A%2F%2Fhometown.aol.co.uk%2Ff9279eo4x%2Fnonfuturity-157.html+nonfuturity%2C++%3E%3A-%5D%2C+http%3A%2F%2Fhometown.aol.co.uk%2Ff9279eo4x%2Fnonfungible-147.html+nonfungible%2C++%3E%3AP%2C+http%3A%2F%2Fhometown.aol.co.uk%2Ff9279eo4x%2Feast-greenbush-movie-theater-709.html+east+greenbush+movie+theater%2C++5672%2C+http%3A%2F%2Fhometown.aol.co.uk%2Ff9279eo4x%2Fnoni-jucie-benefits-712.html+noni+jucie+benefits%2C++pjwyf%2C+http%3A%2F%2Fhometown.aol.co.uk%2Ff9279eo4x%2Fnonfragile-61.html+nonfragile%2C++43402%2C+http%3A%2F%2Fhometown.aol.co.uk%2Ff9279eo4x%2Fnonglandular-323.html+nonglandular%2C++%3E%3APPP%2C+http%3A%2F%2Fhometown.aol.co.uk%2Ff9279eo4x%2Feast-hall-high-school-gainesville-160.html+east+hall+high+school+gainesville%2C++2584%2C+http%3A%2F%2Fhometown.aol.co.uk%2Ff9279eo4x%2Fisonzo-offensive-226.html+isonzo+offensive%2C++%3E%3APPP%2C+http%3A%2F%2Fhometown.aol.co.uk%2Ff9279eo4x%2Fnonfunctioning-teenney-135.html+nonfunctioning+teenney%2C++8-))%2C+http%3A%2F%2Fhometown.aol.co.uk%2Ff9279eo4x%2Fnonhypostatically-658.html+nonhypostatically%2C++kehi%2C%0A&sc=0&eq=yes"

This are only to examples
The thing is that I've observed that my system was very slow in the last time, so I thought that such queries mybe create much traffic on the database.
3. I wanted to see if somebody else maybe had oberserved this, or if this is a specific problem of my Wiki
4. The thing is that this is a special phenomenon of Spezial:Ask pages, so there must be something spezial about it that this bots access this page.

My main intention was to show that I've monitored something like this. Thats is not a heavy problem, but something that I think should be known
Comment 3 Markus Krötzsch 2008-09-05 14:05:22 UTC
This is not a problem and should not create notable load. Of course, if you are attacked by thousand of spammers, any request would make the site slow. I aggree that your server appears to be very slow. Things you can try are:

* If you do not have this yet, install a PHP cache as in http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Robchurch/Performance_tuning. 
* Turn on profiling to see what may cause the delays, see http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_debug
* Configure your MySQL server to log slow queries and check whether there are any.
* There are jobs in your job queue: run them to see what they are and how long each takes; report back if you find this to be the cause of your delay.

I close this as a non-bug.
Comment 4 Markus Krötzsch 2008-09-05 14:07:13 UTC
P.S.: The reason for Special:Ask being targetted is probably simply that there are links to this special page in the wiki, whenever there is a "further results" link. Bots may pick those up and try their tricks on them.

P.P.S.: For running jobs, use the MW command line script runJobs.php.

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