It almost always follows an email of a valid link being reported at pretty much the same time (this last time I had a valid bad link reported email followed by 2 of these bad ones, one the same time and the next one was sent 1 minute later). What could cause these sort of emails to be sent without the LINKURL being used?
Still having this problem. Below is the email log of the one today. It doesn't do this with all the reported links... maybe 1 in 5.
Notice how each email is 3 seconds apart, as if it was in some sort of loop that didn't exit properly. It always sends 3 emails too. Also, this only recently started happening (maybe been doing it for a little over a month), so I think it might have something to do with one of the new version upgrades.
webmaster@gamelinks.com Link Reported: Someone has reported a problem with the game link ( {LINKURL} ). The problem is . Edit this link at www.gamelinks.com/admin/edi...ls&fieldvalue={LINKID} This was the comment given: --- This e-mail was sent from Game Links. Visit us at http://www.gamelinks.com From: webmaster@gamelinks.com 04/27/2005 - 11:00:37 AM 66.249.65.232
webmaster@gamelinks.com Link Reported: Someone has reported a problem with the game link ( {LINKURL} ). The problem is . Edit this link at www.gamelinks.com/admin/edi...ls&fieldvalue={LINKID} This was the comment given: --- This e-mail was sent from Game Links. Visit us at http://www.gamelinks.com From: webmaster@gamelinks.com 04/27/2005 - 11:00:34 AM 66.249.65.232
webmaster@gamelinks.com Comment Reported A visitor with the username "" has reported a problem with a comment on . See http://www.gamelinks.com/comments.php?id={LINKID} to view the thread. Edit this comment at www.gamelinks.com/admin/edi...fieldvalue={COMMENTID} This was the reason given for reporting: And here is the full text of the comment in question: --- This e-mail was sent from Game Links. Visit us at http://www.gamelinks.com From: webmaster@gamelinks.com 06/01/2005 - 12:15:30 PM 66.249.65.99
webmaster@gamelinks.com Comment Reported A visitor with the username "" has reported a problem with a comment on . See http://www.gamelinks.com/comments.php?id={LINKID} to view the thread. Edit this comment at www.gamelinks.com/admin/edi...fieldvalue={COMMENTID} This was the reason given for reporting: And here is the full text of the comment in question: --- This e-mail was sent from Game Links. Visit us at http://www.gamelinks.com From: webmaster@gamelinks.com 06/01/2005 - 12:15:28 PM 66.249.65.99
webmaster@gamelinks.com Comment Reported A visitor with the username "B.M.Jessop" has reported a problem with a comment on Runescape. See http://www.gamelinks.com/comments.php?id=157 to view the thread. Edit this comment at www.gamelinks.com/admin/edi...ition=equals&fieldvalue=57 This was the reason given for reporting: the runescape cannotbe opened And here is the full text of the comment in question: i think that instead of paying five bucks a month to be a member i think you should just pay a price up to 25 dollars or so and stay a member i just think it would be a better deal than just paying five dollars a month. think about it. --- This e-mail was sent from Game Links. Visit us at http://www.gamelinks.com From: webmaster@gamelinks.com 06/01/2005 - 12:15:28 PM 203.213.223.12
webmaster@gamelinks.com Link Reported: dead link Someone has reported a problem with the game link Runescape ( http://www.runescape.com/ ). The problem is dead link. Edit this link at www.gamelinks.com/admin/edi...tion=equals&fieldvalue=157 This was the comment given: the runescape cannot be opened --- This e-mail was sent from Game Links. Visit us at http://www.gamelinks.com From: webmaster@gamelinks.com 06/01/2005 - 12:13:42 PM 203.213.223.12
Notice the IPs. The first one (being the one on the bottom) was by the person reporting a bad link. Then he went and reported a comment 2 minutes later. At the same time, a blank report comment was added, with a DIFFERENT IP address. Then 2 seconds later, another blank report comment was added with that same IP. Looks as if the process is being repeated again, caused by another visitor to the site, and because that person didn't initiate this process, all the variables are empty.
I then went ahead and tried reporting a comment myself. This is what it said in my email log:
webmaster@gamelinks.com Comment Reported A visitor with the username "B.M.Jessop" has reported a problem with a comment on Runescape. See http://www.gamelinks.com/comments.php?id=157 to view the thread. Edit this comment at www.gamelinks.com/admin/edi...ition=equals&fieldvalue=57 This was the reason given for reporting: test And here is the full text of the comment in question: i think that instead of paying five bucks a month to be a member i think you should just pay a price up to 25 dollars or so and stay a member i just think it would be a better deal than just paying five dollars a month. think about it. --- This e-mail was sent from Game Links. Visit us at http://www.gamelinks.com From: webmaster@gamelinks.com 06/01/2005 - 03:35:08 PM 12.35.138.3
Note the username it says I am: "B.M.Jessop". I'm logged in as Admin. B.M. Jessop is the name of the person who wrote the comment I reported.
Could this, the email problems, and the Apache log problem (posted in my other thread) all be related? For all these problems, WSN Links appears to be repeating things over and over again - emails sent out, processes (like the one I posted in the Apache log in the other thread), etc. So if that's true, would the more people you have visiting the site, the more chance processes would be repeated and cause problems like this?
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A few times a week, I started getting emails from people reporting broken links that look like this:
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Someone has reported a problem with the game link ( {LINKURL} ). The problem is . Edit this link at www.gamelinks.com/admin/edi...ls&fieldvalue={LINKID}
This was the comment given:
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It almost always follows an email of a valid link being reported at pretty much the same time (this last time I had a valid bad link reported email followed by 2 of these bad ones, one the same time and the next one was sent 1 minute later). What could cause these sort of emails to be sent without the LINKURL being used?
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I can't reproduce it, thus I don't know what could cause it.
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Just got one for Report Comment too:
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A visitor with the username "" has reported a problem with a comment on . See http://www.gamelinks.com/comments.php?id={LINKID}
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Maybe there's a leak one page of the site where the variables/values aren't being passed properly?
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Not any of the pages I've tried.
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Still having this problem. Below is the email log of the one today. It doesn't do this with all the reported links... maybe 1 in 5.
Notice how each email is 3 seconds apart, as if it was in some sort of loop that didn't exit properly. It always sends 3 emails too. Also, this only recently started happening (maybe been doing it for a little over a month), so I think it might have something to do with one of the new version upgrades.
webmaster@gamelinks.com Link Reported: Someone has reported a problem with the game link ( {LINKURL} ). The problem is . Edit this link at www.gamelinks.com/admin/edi...ls&fieldvalue={LINKID} This was the comment given: --- This e-mail was sent from Game Links. Visit us at http://www.gamelinks.com From: webmaster@gamelinks.com 04/27/2005 - 11:00:34 AM 66.249.65.232
webmaster@gamelinks.com Link Reported: dead link Someone has reported a problem with the game link Curse of the Dark Prophecy ( http://programmer2.net/games/dpa2.htm ). The problem is dead link. Edit this link at www.gamelinks.com/admin/edi...tion=equals&fieldvalue=197 This was the comment given: --- This e-mail was sent from Game Links. Visit us at http://www.gamelinks.com From: webmaster@gamelinks.com 04/27/2005 - 11:00:31 AM 81
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I need some method by which to reproduce it.
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Here's some more info on this.
I looked in my email logs today and saw this:
webmaster@gamelinks.com Comment Reported A visitor with the username "" has reported a problem with a comment on . See http://www.gamelinks.com/comments.php?id={LINKID} to view the thread. Edit this comment at www.gamelinks.com/admin/edi...fieldvalue={COMMENTID} This was the reason given for reporting: And here is the full text of the comment in question: --- This e-mail was sent from Game Links. Visit us at http://www.gamelinks.com From: webmaster@gamelinks.com 06/01/2005 - 12:15:30 PM 66.249.65.99
webmaster@gamelinks.com Comment Reported A visitor with the username "" has reported a problem with a comment on . See http://www.gamelinks.com/comments.php?id={LINKID} to view the thread. Edit this comment at www.gamelinks.com/admin/edi...fieldvalue={COMMENTID} This was the reason given for reporting: And here is the full text of the comment in question: --- This e-mail was sent from Game Links. Visit us at http://www.gamelinks.com From: webmaster@gamelinks.com 06/01/2005 - 12:15:28 PM 66.249.65.99
webmaster@gamelinks.com Comment Reported A visitor with the username "B.M.Jessop" has reported a problem with a comment on Runescape. See http://www.gamelinks.com/comments.php?id=157 to view the thread. Edit this comment at www.gamelinks.com/admin/edi...ition=equals&fieldvalue=57 This was the reason given for reporting: the runescape cannotbe opened And here is the full text of the comment in question: i think that instead of paying five bucks a month to be a member i think you should just pay a price up to 25 dollars or so and stay a member i just think it would be a better deal than just paying five dollars a month. think about it. --- This e-mail was sent from Game Links. Visit us at http://www.gamelinks.com From: webmaster@gamelinks.com 06/01/2005 - 12:15:28 PM 203.213.223.12
webmaster@gamelinks.com Link Reported: dead link Someone has reported a problem with the game link Runescape ( http://www.runescape.com/ ). The problem is dead link. Edit this link at www.gamelinks.com/admin/edi...tion=equals&fieldvalue=157 This was the comment given: the runescape cannot be opened --- This e-mail was sent from Game Links. Visit us at http://www.gamelinks.com From: webmaster@gamelinks.com 06/01/2005 - 12:13:42 PM 203.213.223.12
Notice the IPs. The first one (being the one on the bottom) was by the person reporting a bad link. Then he went and reported a comment 2 minutes later. At the same time, a blank report comment was added, with a DIFFERENT IP address. Then 2 seconds later, another blank report comment was added with that same IP. Looks as if the process is being repeated again, caused by another visitor to the site, and because that person didn't initiate this process, all the variables are empty.
I then went ahead and tried reporting a comment myself. This is what it said in my email log:
webmaster@gamelinks.com Comment Reported A visitor with the username "B.M.Jessop" has reported a problem with a comment on Runescape. See http://www.gamelinks.com/comments.php?id=157 to view the thread. Edit this comment at www.gamelinks.com/admin/edi...ition=equals&fieldvalue=57 This was the reason given for reporting: test And here is the full text of the comment in question: i think that instead of paying five bucks a month to be a member i think you should just pay a price up to 25 dollars or so and stay a member i just think it would be a better deal than just paying five dollars a month. think about it. --- This e-mail was sent from Game Links. Visit us at http://www.gamelinks.com From: webmaster@gamelinks.com 06/01/2005 - 03:35:08 PM 12.35.138.3
Note the username it says I am: "B.M.Jessop". I'm logged in as Admin. B.M. Jessop is the name of the person who wrote the comment I reported.
Could this, the email problems, and the Apache log problem (posted in my other thread) all be related? For all these problems, WSN Links appears to be repeating things over and over again - emails sent out, processes (like the one I posted in the Apache log in the other thread), etc. So if that's true, would the more people you have visiting the site, the more chance processes would be repeated and cause problems like this?
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Yea, i am getting the exactly same problem lately. I also tried testing reporting the link with different browser( means not logged in as admin ).
Sometimes i get 2 emails with the ={LINKID} from my own i.p and another from sender's i.p.
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Do you have details of your settings or a method I can follow?
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'From: webmaster@gamelinks.com 04/27/2005 - 11:00:37 AM 66.249.65.232'
66.249.65.232 is crawl-66-249-65-232.googlebot.com
'From: webmaster@gamelinks.com 06/01/2005 - 12:15:30 PM 66.249.65.99'
66.249.65.99 is crawl-66-249-65-99.googlebot.com
is it possible that googlebot.com can trigger reporting broken links ?
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Googlebot doesn't submit forms, but some spam devices would. Turn the security image on if you haven't, to stop them.