[Python-Dev] robots exclusion file on the buildbot pages? (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Sat May 15 22:28:23 CEST 2010

Hmm. Before doing any modifications, I'd rather have a definite analysis on this. Are you absolutely certain that, when that happened, the individual builds that caused this svn exception where actually triggered over the web, rather than by checkin? How can I be "absolutely certain"?

In the example you gave, the build log says

"The web-page 'force build' button was pressed by '': "

So ISTM that it's indeed certain that the build was triggered over the web, rather than by a checkin.

http://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/builders/sparc%20Ubuntu%20trunk/builds/175

AFAICT from the twistd logs, the user agent triggering this build was "Mozilla/4.7 [ja] (Win98; I)". It still may have been a bot; it was using a GET request, even though the form asks for a POST.

The IP address points to some Japanese dialup network (reverse lookup reports address.dy.bbexcite.jp.)

The bot probably has malicious intent: it has been using about 10 different user-agent strings, on various parts of the site. I have now blackholed this IP address (although it stopped contacting python.org around 8 hours ago, anyway).

If desired, we could password-protect the "force build" forms. If that is to be done, some help from a buildbot expert on what to change specifically would be appreciated.

Regards, Martin

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