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Opened 7 years ago

Closed 7 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:
Priority: normal Milestone:
Component: Plugin Directory Keywords: seo analytics
Cc:

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.

Change History (1)

#1 @dd32
7 years ago

  • Resolution → reported-upstream
  • Status new → closed

Search engines are currently blocked from the current resources:

  • /plugins/search.php
  • /support/search.php

Filed request: ​https://make.wordpress.org/systems/2019/10/18/remove-old-bbpress1-search-blocking/

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