Opened 5 years ago
Closed 5 years ago
#4765 closed defect (bug) (reported-upstream)
Google user agent requests to plugins/search.php returns a raw 403
Reported by: | jonoaldersonwp | Owned by: | |
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Milestone: | Priority: | normal | |
Component: | Plugin Directory | Keywords: | seo analytics |
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Description
Requests like https://wordpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=cats return a 403 error when the user agent is (or appears to be) Google. This behaviour (and any similar conditions which detect and alter the outcome for search engine user agents) should be disabled/removed.
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Search engines are currently blocked from the current resources:
Filed request: https://make.wordpress.org/systems/2019/10/18/remove-old-bbpress1-search-blocking/