[Modsecurity] Problem with robots.txt with header pattern matching "^$"

[Bernd Essl]

On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 20:55 +0200, Lezgin Bakircioglu wrote:
> Hi everybody, I have problem with a rule thats denying webcrawler to
> index my pages.
> I am using Debian 3.1 stable with apache2 and using the modsecurity
> package from the debian repository with the gotroot rules.
> Now, I have used modsecurity for 6 months now so I am still cind of new
> to it.
> I cant find the rule that is blocking the header pattern matching "^$".
> Anybody that can help me? I have my mailbox in the modsecurity list from
> 2006-02 but nothing.

im searching rules like this:

# rgrep '\^\$' /etc/modsec/*

(you should use your ruleset-folder path).

i think the rule is to block proxy servers, but not shure.


regards bernd

> 
> Anyway, how is it going with the 2.0 version?:)
> 
> ========================================
> Request: 209.237.238.224 - - [13/Apr/2006:17:37:08 +0200] "GET
> /robots.txt HTTP/1.0" 500 68
> Handler: (null)
> ----------------------------------------
> GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.0
> Connection: close
> Host: www.xxx.com
> User-Agent:
> From:
> mod_security-message: Access denied with code 500. Pattern match "^$" at
> HEADER
> mod_security-action: 500
> 
> HTTP/1.0 500 Internal Server Error
> Last-Modified: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 23:13:03 GMT
> ETag: "1a8cc78-44-410b72a627dc0"
> Accept-Ranges: bytes
> Content-Length: 68
> Connection: close
> Content-Type: text/html
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