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Latest post by nicholas on Monday, 01 November 2021 01:59 CDT
Folks,
I've had an issue over the past couple days with my CronJobs being denied by server configuration. I found that your list of agents include WGET and blocks it from running.
How can I put an exception in the backend of Admin Tools to remove the WGET as an agent. I prefer not to manually edit the .htacess every time I have to refresh it. I know that I will forget to do it.
Thanks,
Joe
Folks,
Please disregard this request. I found my answer in the Agent listing in the backend of Admin Tools. My opinion. I don't think that Admin Tools should add WGET in the list of agents. Many of us use this command to execute CronJobs. I really took some time to find this issue especially when I've had this CronJob running for years. I never would have thought to look in Admin Tools agents.
Thanks for a great product!
Joe
The default list of blocked user agents was compiled based on historical blocked attacks data and online resources. I agree that for those who use wget to automate things having it there by default is very moderately inconvenient in that you need to remove it or work around it. For the majority of people using our software, through, who do not automate things with wget or who do but dp pass a custom user agent to wget (as per best practice) the default list is safer.
What I mean is that you can always pass --user-agent="Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious/1.0" to your wget command line to make it pretend it's Mary Poppins instead of wget — you can of course use a different user agent if you're not a fan of classic Disney musicals. This way you can leave the default blocked user agents string which will cut off a lot of lame attacks by script kiddies who blindly follow online “hacking” tutorials without understanding what the commands they run actually do 😉
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