xmlrpc python

[rds]

Hi

I’m writing a python script to use xmlrpc to post a file to my WP site. However BPS causes 403 errors (xmlrpc works fine when I turn BPS off). I’ve included the  security log message below (the remote_addr and host name are mine of course).

I thought maybe BPS was blocking my script because of python in the user agent, so I got rid of all references to python in the BPS root .htaccess, but this now leads to a 500 error…

Any ideas ?

Thanks very much

>>>>>>>>>>> 403 GET or Other Request Error Logged - 26/04/2013 - 2:05 PM <<<<<<<<<<<
REMOTE_ADDR: ******************
Host Name: ***********************
HTTP_CLIENT_IP:
HTTP_FORWARDED:
HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR:
HTTP_X_CLUSTER_CLIENT_IP:
REQUEST_METHOD: GET
HTTP_REFERER:
REQUEST_URI: /xmlrpc.php
QUERY_STRING:
HTTP_USER_AGENT: xmlrpclib.py/1.0.1 (by www.pythonware.com)

[AITpro Admin]

Yep, most likely you just made a typo and that caused the 500 error. I assume this is the modification you did to allow the python User Agent. Edit your root .htaccess file and remove python| from the User Agent security filters. Be sure to also remove the pipe operator |.

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (havij|libwww-perl|wget|python|nikto|curl|scan|java|winhttp|clshttp|loader) [NC,OR]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (;|<|>|'|"|\)|\(|%0A|%0D|%22|%27|%28|%3C|%3E|%00).*(libwww-perl|wget|python|nikto|curl|scan|java|winhttp|HTTrack|clshttp|archiver|loader|email|harvest|extract|grab|miner) [NC,OR]

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