Comments on: mt-proxyplug shut down comments through proxies

By: stan

stan — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I was wondering if this Plugin will only work with MT version 3.x or can we instal on older versions too? I followed your brief directions above, but unfortunately got lost since I can not see that screen shot you have posted.

By: IO ERROR

IO ERROR — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I recommend putting HTTP_FORWARDED_FOR before UserAgent, so that you can still use standard tools like grep, cut, etc., to break apart and analyze the logs. This might not be important to you, but your web analysis tools might need it.

By: IO ERROR

IO ERROR — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

On further consideration I’d replace %l (the second field) with HTTP_FORWARDED_FOR. This field is not used so it makes a much better candidate, and as was pointed out to me, shifting the User-Agent field over might confuse some web analysis tools.

By: Jamie McCarthy

Jamie McCarthy — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Do either of the open proxy lists ever catch anything? Since those are specifically for SMTP proxies I would be surprised if very many of those machines are also HTTP proxies, and I’d figure it wasn’t worth the effort to check them.

By: Justin Mason

Justin Mason — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hey — as one of the SA developers, I like what you’re doing here, very interesting stuff! I never would have thought SA could make much of an inroad into comment spam, given how different HTTP and SMTP are.

Jamie’s point about the open proxy lists is a good one — many of those machines are indeed running HTTP proxies that are being misused (using “CONNECT”) as SMTP proxies, so you may find an overlap there. SA will do that check for you if you’re running without the -L switch on spamd, and if you generate plausible-looking Received header in the “mail” you pass to it.

By: Chris Collins

Chris Collins — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I have been getting the following error with this plugin. I wonder what I should be checking to see why. The webhost I use uses Perl 5.8.4.

{
Proxy Plug for Movable Type v0.5 died with: Can’t locate object method “new” via package “LWP::UserAgent” at plugins/mt-proxyplug.pl line 201.
}

By: demonsurfer

demonsurfer — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Is this pretty much the same as MT-DBSL? http://mt-plugins.org/archives/entry/dbsl.php

By: Gabe Misura

Gabe Misura — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Does this work with MT 2.611? I put the file in my plugin directory and seems to be doing nothing. I’ve turned on LOG_DEBUG ( => 1) and still i don’t see anything in the mt_log mysql table.

By: Mark Odell

Mark Odell — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Since it seems that dsbl.org is not broad enough, and since sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org includes Blitzed OPM, is there any chance of allowing the admin to select different/additional/broader DNSBLs, even (dare I say it? SPEWS?

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hello all