Re: strange tiki-searchresults.php requests
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm using TikiWiki for a while and found several strange requests in the logs of my apache server, like this one:
>
> x.x.x.x - - xx/Oct/2007:13:00:13 +0000 "GET /tiki-searchresults.php?highlight=http%3A%2F%2Fconsulting.XXXX.XXXXXX.edu%2Fmainframe.php%3
> Fpage%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2FXXXra-drug.com%26pointer%3Dtg%26anchor%3Dtg&search=Go&where=http%3A%2F%2Fconsulting.XXXX.XXXXXX.edu%2Fmainframe.php%3Fp
> age%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2FXXXra-drug.com%26pointer%3Dtg%26anchor%3Dtg HTTP/1.1" 200 - "-" "User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; Mozilla/4.0"
>
> where the URL consulting... differs in each request and the other one (XXXra-...) is the same.
> When I did the same request the tiki-searchresults.php returned a database error. With a different (unused) URL a blank page returns.
>
> Can someone tell me what's going on there and if it's problem? Otherweise I wouldn't get a wink of sleep....
>
> Thx
Looks like it could be search spam. Although I don't think anything bad will happen, Tiki's search function is very expensive (SQL-wise) and bogus searches (unless these are valid searches) can impact your overall performance
I blogged about one possible solution, a while ago, here.
HTH,
-Rick
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