Lonny wrote:
Hi All,
We at
Appropedia.org have been getting hit by these deleting bots as well.
They seem to delete everything after an ampersand. They have also removed a
few plus signs in tables.
As i suggested before, they may not be blanking bots, but
any other type
(eg. trying to add a spamming link at the end) which have edit features
so broken that make them remove content.
There is no point in creating a bot which "removes text after &", you
would blank the page almost without loading the edit page.
I guess they are using application/x-www-form-urlencoded without proper
encoding:
wpStarttime=20070101&wpTextBox1=Wiki content&wpSave=wpSave in the post
data will save "Wiki content", but if you try to pass "Wiki &
Content",
wpStarttime=20070101&wpTextBox1=Wiki & Content&wpSave=wpSave wpTextbox1
value is only "Wiki "