Here's a new one for 'ya....

five?marks <-That's what it says. Yup, that's what it says.

[pendanticist]

Whadday make if this?

68.62.151.254 - - [14/Dec/2002:19:31:41 -0800] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 20055 "-" "?"

Is it safe to ban via "?"

Now that's queer. I've pasted five "?" in succession into this text editor and only the one appears in either the Description: area, or that matter, only one appears when I come back into the editor to make these adjustments.

So, I guess that makes this post worth two points. One for why it truncates the question marks and two for "Has anyone ever seen a referrer with five question marks in a row?"

Anyway, I've banned by IP for the time being since it's only requested one file.

Pendanticist.

[pendanticist]

Nobody wants to touch this one, eh?

Pendanticist.

[andreasfriedrich]

why it truncates the question marks

To keep your posts nice and clean. ;)

"Has anyone ever seen a referrer with five question marks in a row?"

No. But referers are easy to fake.

Andreas

[pendanticist]

Ok, Andreas, Thanks.

Tell me then, is it safe to ban those five question marks in my .htaccess?

Won't cause any residual problems (that you may know of), will it?

Pendanticist.