[wp-forums] FYI: Stupid new GoDaddy server rule

[Patrick Nommensen]

They now say that the issue has been resolved. I'm not sure whether or 
not that's true :-/
> Jan Dembowski <mailto:jan at dembowski.net>
> Thursday, September 26, 2013 9:37 AM
> Ha. Thanks. I think my confidence level would go up if that were a planned
> "improvement" on their part...
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> Patrick Nommensen <mailto:patrick at nommensen.us>
> Thursday, September 26, 2013 9:29 AM
> GoDaddy has told me : "There's an issue beyond that/causing that. 
> We're looking into it." Hmm.
>
> Otto <mailto:otto at ottodestruct.com>
> Thursday, September 26, 2013 8:56 AM
>
> I left GoDaddy hosting when they started blocking some of my posts
> from being served. It was accidental, but on a level of stupid that I
> had not seen before.
>
> Essentially, they put in some filtering mechanism that instantly
> dropped any connection which sent or received this character sequence:
> "eval(base64_decode". This applied to every form of IP connection,
> near as I can tell. FTP, web, ssh, everything. So my posts with
> samples of (nerfed) bad code got blocked too.
>
> Note that sending "eval (base64_decode" worked fine. They have a funny
> definition of "security" over there.
>
> -Otto
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> Jan Dembowski <mailto:jan at dembowski.net>
> Thursday, September 26, 2013 8:50 AM
> I've reached out via email to that GoDaddy account but I'm not holding my
> breath. I have a feeling that someone at that hosting company said "Yeah!
> That's a great idea! Let's do that!"
>
> I mean, that would sound better than *"What's that button do? I'm sure it
> will be fiiiinnneee."...*
>
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> esmi at quirm dot net <mailto:esmi at quirm.net>
> Thursday, September 26, 2013 8:35 AM
>
>
> I've been doing the same trawling exercise. No luck so far.
>
> I did come across a reference that they did not announce the Apache 
> 2.4 upgrade (apparently it also caused havoc with sites using ssi). So 
> I'm not holding out much hope of any official documentation of any 
> restriction on absolute urls or requests.
>
> Mel