Comments on: Have spammers found a new way of using Blogs? http://www.blogherald.com/2003/10/06/have-spammers-found-a-new-way-of-using-blogs/ The leading source of news covering social media and the blogosphere. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:18:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Chris http://www.blogherald.com/2003/10/06/have-spammers-found-a-new-way-of-using-blogs/comment-page-1/#comment-193 Chris Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2003/10/06/have-spammers-found-a-new-way-of-using-blogs/#comment-193 They simply request a page from your site and forge the http request header. Here is an example request. GET /archives/cat_blog_review.html HTTP/1.1 Host: www.blogherald.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20030926 Firebird/0.7+ Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,video/x-mng,image/png,image/jpeg,image/gif;q=0.2,*/*;q=0.1 Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Keep-Alive: 300 Referer: <a href="http://-THIR-SITE-HERE/">http://-THIR-SITE-HERE/</a> Connection: keep-alive They simply request a page from your site and forge the http request header.

Here is an example request.

GET /archives/cat_blog_review.html HTTP/1.1
Host: http://www.blogherald.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20030926 Firebird/0.7+
Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,video/x-mng,image/png,image/jpeg,image/gif;q=0.2,*/*;q=0.1
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Referer: http://-THIR-SITE-HERE/
Connection: keep-alive

]]> By: Duncan Riley http://www.blogherald.com/2003/10/06/have-spammers-found-a-new-way-of-using-blogs/comment-page-1/#comment-195 Duncan Riley Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2003/10/06/have-spammers-found-a-new-way-of-using-blogs/#comment-195 Thanks to everyone for the insight as to how this is done, just saw an article which puts a different slant on the issue <a href="http://www.virtuelvis.com/archives/121.html">http://www.virtuelvis.com/archives/121.html</a> although I dont agree with all of what he is saying it is none the less interesting. Thanks to everyone for the insight as to how this is done, just saw an article which puts a different slant on the issue
http://www.virtuelvis.com/archives/121.html
although I dont agree with all of what he is saying it is none the less interesting.

]]> By: Angela http://www.blogherald.com/2003/10/06/have-spammers-found-a-new-way-of-using-blogs/comment-page-1/#comment-196 Angela Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2003/10/06/have-spammers-found-a-new-way-of-using-blogs/#comment-196 Blog spam is getting to be a real problem. I just started getting some this week, and I'm gonna nip it in the bud. I downloaded and installed this: <a href="http://www.jayallen.org/misc/projects/mt-blacklist/">http://www.jayallen.org/misc/projects/mt-blacklist/</a> Blog spam is getting to be a real problem. I just started getting some this week, and I’m gonna nip it in the bud. I downloaded and installed this: http://www.jayallen.org/misc/projects/mt-blacklist/

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