Comments on: Project Honey Pot Http:BL WordPress Plugin

By: Home Staging

Home Staging — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 02:53:49 +0000

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By: Project Honey Pot Http:BL is Going Back Home « OMNINOGGIN

Project Honey Pot Http:BL is Going Back Home « OMNINOGGIN — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 20:24:15 +0000

[...] by WP Greet BoxIt is my pleasure to announce that I will be joining my development efforts of Project Honey Pot Http:BL plugin with Jan Stepien (the original developer of Http:BL). Jan has already merged my changes onto [...]

By: Eddy De Clercq

Eddy De Clercq — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 07:33:55 +0000

Hi,

The before is showing my Project Honey Pot Http:BL Access Key. The after doesn’t show of course. I can’t check the Project HP site, since it’s down for maintenance.

Eddy

By: Thaya Kareeson

Thaya Kareeson — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:41:39 +0000

Eddy De Clercq
Do you know if the code even executes at all? Can you add some echo commands in php-httpbl.php in php_httpbl_check_visitor()? I would place one before and after line 253 to print out the $result for sure.

echo “result before if:” . $result[0];
if ( $result[0] == 127 ) {
echo “result after if:” . $result[0];

It might be possible that your service DNSBL stopped working. You might also want to log into your Project Honey Pot account and check the statistics if you have been detecting any bots lately.

By: Eddy De Clercq

Eddy De Clercq — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 09:09:48 +0000

After 5 days, still no logs. I thought it would be that I also use an sql injection blocker, but I stopped that one and it makes no difference. The two worked together in the past anyway.

By: Thaya Kareeson

Thaya Kareeson — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:57:07 +0000

@Eddy
Sorry for the late response (I’ve been on a bit of a vacation).

To debug, I recommend enabling logging in your the plugins options and temporarily modifying php-httpbl.php line 321 from:

if ($log)

to:

if (true)

Now wait a few days to see if you are getting hits.

Please let me know if this helps.

By: Eddy De Clercq

Eddy De Clercq — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:23:44 +0000

Hi,

I’ve installed the new version and since then see nothing appear anymore in the log. Either there aren’t any malicious visits whihc I doubt very much either the plugin doesn’t work anymore either the logging doesn’t work anymore. Do you have any hints on what to do or check in order to get things running back to normal?

Eddy

By: Thaya Kareeson

Thaya Kareeson — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:53:02 +0000

@Clay I'm sorry you are having this issue. I haven't noticed any outages or stoppage of new accounts. They are usually good at letting us know if they are going to be down for maintenance or anything. Did you try to send them an email? You can get to the email link on the about page.

By: Clay

Clay — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:47:36 +0000

Hi. I know you don’t represent Project Honeypot, but I can’t seem to be able to sign up to get the API key. Their signup form says it will send a validation email which you must follow to activate, but it never comes. I’ve checked spam folders, and I’ve tried different email accounts. I am having a dreadful time right now with spammers (appear to be human, but professional spammers) and I’m hoping to utilize the service.

Perhaps as a current member of the Honeypot community, are you aware of any outage in their service, or stoppage of new accounts?

By: Thaya Kareeson

Thaya Kareeson — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:31:39 +0000

Released version 1.3.0 with the following changes:
- Fixed a major bug in the previous release that broke logging.
- Added CSS to admin menu to let user identify options groups easier.

By: Thaya Kareeson

Thaya Kareeson — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:20:38 +0000

@ovidiu I use WordPress Threaded Comments. It works well with my AJAX Force Comment Preview plugin. Hope you can check that out too!

By: ovidiu

ovidiu — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:57:12 +0000

hi there, my question is not really related but what plugin are you using for the reply function and the threading function in your comment form?

By: Thaya Kareeson

Thaya Kareeson — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:02:43 +0000

Released version 1.2.0 with the following change:
- Added backwards compatibility with Jan’s original plugin (using table ‘httpbl_log’ for logging).

By: Eddy De Clercq

Eddy De Clercq — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:19:20 +0000

Problem solved. Again thx for the quick fix

By: Thaya Kareeson

Thaya Kareeson — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:56:15 +0000

Released version 1.1.0 with the following change:
- Removed “\n\t” from HTML printout as this shows badly on some platforms.

By: Eddy De Clercq

Eddy De Clercq — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:49:11 +0000

Hi Thaya,

Thx for the quick reply and solution. It’s PHP 5 on Linux.

Eddy

By: Thaya Kareeson

Thaya Kareeson — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:46:30 +0000

@Eddy De Clercq
Thank you for trying out this plugin and your great feedback. I will release a new version without these characters in them today.

Just so that I know for the future, what version of PHP are you using? Also are you running on a Linux or Windows platform?

By: Eddy De Clercq

Eddy De Clercq — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:47:31 +0000

Hi,

As a long time project honyepot lover/implementer (I even wrote a port fro SAP systems once), I’m very happy with this plugin for my blog.
I see one minor issue though. In the log I get after this line ‘A list of 50 most recent visitors listed in the Project Honey Pot’s database.’ A lot of this ‘\n\t\t\’. It seems that the length of this string with crs and tabs is growing when the log gets longer.

Eddy

By: autworld

autworld — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:49:28 +0000

thanks for your feedback, Thaya, we have tested it today on the blog of a friend of mine and yes, it helps alot. you did a great job! we gonna implemented it in the next days, after we´ve finished some other improovements. i´ll give you an feedback after this, have a nice day.

By: Thaya Kareeson

Thaya Kareeson — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:57:01 +0000

Released version 1.0.1 with the following change:
- Fixed readme.txt typo to use php_httpbl_stats() instead of httpbl_stats()