Traffic from 'bc.googleusercontent.com' is originating from Compute Engine.
so its unlikely to be google itself, although admitedly google employees can rent vps'es too. On Wed, 14 Nov 2018, 11:23 Gardecor Incorp, <gardecor...@gmail.com> wrote: > > SERVER vars: > [REMOTE_ADDR] => 35.236.192.28 > [REMOTE_HOST] => 28.192.236.35.bc.googleusercontent.com > [REMOTE_PORT] => 61840 > [HTTP_USER_AGENT] => Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; pt-PT; > rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) which is > Firefox 3.5 on XP > > Whatever this is doing, it is appending > 'A=0 > to the URL. > > E.g., correct URL = > https://mysite.com/mypage?me=yes > > That [REMOTE_HOST] => 28.192.236.35.bc.googleusercontent.com > > changes it to > https://mysite.com/me=yes'A=0 > > That results in a 404 because the query string, me=yes, should be the > correct var for the program to find the right page. > > (1) What's happening? Is this really Google? > > (2) If it's Google, then why doesn't Google quality check and correct what > they are doing? > > (3) Why doesn't the user agent reflect a bot? > > (4) It's upsetting to find this during a debugging routine a long time > after the program is coded and quality checked okay. > How can that be prevented in the future? How do I predict that Google will > do something stupid like this. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/1d445966-5624-49da-ba58-b27c5fd50f1e%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/1d445966-5624-49da-ba58-b27c5fd50f1e%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/CAJCAUu%2BiVSgOGZ5A_T%2BmxrDWLTeEOCVFWozvG%2B-Ngir9ZNTWpA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
