[wp-testers] Unable to Upload

[Rick Beckman]

Kirk: Way ahead of you. I blogged the solution here:
http://rickbeckman.org/wordpress-25-bad-behavior-20x/

I'm not sure why "Wordpress" is listed, but it's conceivable a bot would be
masquerading as the software we all know and love. I left that line as it
didn't seem to be causing any problems.

--
Rick

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Kirk M <kmb42vt at gmail.com> wrote:

> Brent Logan wrote:
> > I get this behavior even when I deactivate all plugins.
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 3:36 PM, Rick Beckman <rick.beckman at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Okay, I've solved my problem! The user-agent "Shockwave Flash" is in
> >> Bad Behavior's blacklist, but that's the user-agent that the new
> >> WordPress media manager uses! D'oh! I deactivated Bad Behavior, and
> >> all is well.
> >>
> >>
> Brent,
>
> If you want to keep using Bad behavior 2.0.13 here's what I recommended
> to Mr Awsome:
>
> Bad Behavior 2.0.13 lists "shockwave flash" as a spam harvestor in  it's
> blacklist file. It also lists "wordpress" as malicious software by the
> way which I find ironically hilarious. Anyway, try this:
>
> In your favorite FTP program, navigate to
> "wp-content/plugins/bad-behavior/bad-behavior" (yes, there's two of
> them) and download and open the "blacklist.inc.php" file in your
> favorite editor. Once open locate and comment-out or delete the
> following line:
>
> "Shockwave Flash",    // spam harvester
>
> I personally removed this next line as well. I never understood why that
> was there in the first place (but that's me):
>
> "Wordpress",        // malicious software (yup! It's there)
>
> Now you should be able to reactivate Bad Behavior and try your uploads
> again. Bet they work.
>
> HTH
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