wgroeneveld
/
brainbaking
1
0
Fork 0
Code Issues Pull Requests Packages Projects Releases Wiki Activity

remove vps domain

This commit is contained in:
Wouter Groeneveld 2022-04-24 20:23:26 +02:00
parent 4634fea477
commit d36d9e9e14
1 changed files with 1 additions and 1 deletions
Show Stats Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

2
content/post/2022/04/fighting-webmention-and-pingback-spam.md
View File

@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ And herein lies the pickle. More popular obviously also means more prone to spam
Go-Jamming converts a Pingback to a Webmention, so internally, they're the same and adhere to the same rules. Once the Pingback XML manages to get decoded, that is---most of the spam I see coming my way comes in the form of malformed XML! Hilarious. Here's the log output of a failing one:
```
Apr 18 22:47:28 vps-5f7dac56 go-jamming[1523793]: {"level":"error","error":"pingback POST: Unable to unmarshal XMLRPC <?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-16\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\r\n<methodCall>\r\n\t<methodName>pingback.ping</methodName>\r\n\t<params>\r\n\t\t<param>\r\n\t\t\t<value><string>https://aylesbur-drains dot couk</string></value>\r\n\t\t</param>\r\n\t\t<param>\r\n\t\t\t<value><string>https://brainbaking.com/post/2022/03/an-ad-leaflet-qr-design-mistake/</string></value>\r\n\t\t</param>\r\n\t</params>\r\n</methodCall>: xml: encoding \"utf-16\" declared but Decoder.CharsetReader is nil","time":1650322048,"message":"Pingback receive went wrong"}
Apr 18 22:47:28 vps-domain go-jamming[1523793]: {"level":"error","error":"pingback POST: Unable to unmarshal XMLRPC <?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-16\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\r\n<methodCall>\r\n\t<methodName>pingback.ping</methodName>\r\n\t<params>\r\n\t\t<param>\r\n\t\t\t<value><string>https://aylesbur-drains dot couk</string></value>\r\n\t\t</param>\r\n\t\t<param>\r\n\t\t\t<value><string>https://brainbaking.com/post/2022/03/an-ad-leaflet-qr-design-mistake/</string></value>\r\n\t\t</param>\r\n\t</params>\r\n</methodCall>: xml: encoding \"utf-16\" declared but Decoder.CharsetReader is nil","time":1650322048,"message":"Pingback receive went wrong"}
```
That British `-drains` domain name comes in many forms with different prepended words, but they're all the same. A `-drains` blacklist entry helps here. I've obfuscated a part of the domain name as I don't want to give spammers the pleasure of linking even if it's implicit