Python-urllib user caught in ModSecurity

ModSecurity, a very helpful Linux tool for preventing unwanted server intrusions, caught a user using the program Python-urllib trying to access on of my websites.

Python-urllib is often used by web users as an email harvester. It is also used by Hanzo to archive websites.

216.246.65.100 – -”GET HTTP/1.1″ 406 269 “-” “Python-urllib/2.4″

This means that our ModSec rules identified the useragent ‘Python-urllib’ and return ed a ‘406′ response which means Not Acceptable.

216.246.65.100 resolves back to unknown.ord.servercentral.net.

Written by admin on July 4th, 2008 with comments disabled.
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