Our Django sites get literally hundreds of bogus 404 requests per day. For example:
Referrer: http://domain.edu/ <http://multimedia.journalism.berkeley.edu/> Requested URL: /signup/ User agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1;) IP address: 168.9.86.2 The "referrer" line is a lie because nowhere on our site do we point to "/signup" . I've given up trying to figure out how these things are generated or how to block them. But I would like to limit the number of daily emails to just the actual/legit 404s. So I started using IGNORABLE_404_URLS, per: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/error-reporting/#errors IGNORABLE_404_URLS = ( re.compile(r'\.(php|cgi)$'), re.compile(r'^/forums'), re.compile(r'^/signup'), re.compile(r'/src/'), re.compile(r'/pdf/'), ) Unfortunately this seems to have no effect. Shouldn't the regex pattern there catch the bogus request domain.edu/signup ? Or is this not working because the way the requests are being submitted somehow bypasses Django's ability to catch it as an error? I'm just not clear what's going on here. Thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-users/-/7xxDzuRZue4J. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
