Blocking users that attempt to rate a Web Link

pizzafiend · New Member Joined: Jan 21, 2008 Posts: 19

One of my users was blocked today for attempting to rate a link. Not sure exactly what happened (he was probably trying to rate it again as Anonymous). Anyway, this is what I found:

Logged in as a user, I could access the Web Links module and rate links without issue. I logged out (now Anonymous) and tried to rate a link and got blocked (Abuse-Script).

Quote:

Get String: mydomain.org/modules.php?name=Web_Links&l_op=ratelink&lid=64&ttitle=Title_of_the_Link

I then unblocked myself (edited nuke_nsnst_blocked_ip table and .htaccess file) and logged in as God and configured the Web Links module so that only Registered Users could access it. I then logged out as God, logged in as user, and all is good. However, and I expected to see this, if I copied the URL to rate a link, then logged out and pasted the URL into my browser, I got blocked again. Laughing

The problem now is that I would like to allow anonymous visitors to access Web Links, and not block them from the site if they attempt to rate a link. It'd be better to tell them they are not able to rate links unless they're a registered user.

Any help sure would be appreciated.

pizzafiend · New Member Joined: Jan 21, 2008 Posts: 19

Found it. If the Link title has parentheses and a user tries to rate it, they get blocked.

Gremmie · Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 8:58 pm

Yes, that will do it. We "fixed" the Web Links and Downloads in RavenNuke to stop putting that ttitle junk in the link.