I wouldn't even bother letting this get to your app if you can avoid it. If you 
have control over your web server (ie apache/nginx) then set up a rule that 
just blocks any request to xmlrpc.php?


On 06/07/2012, at 1:59 PM, Steve H wrote:

> Hi Roro,
> 
> Some idiot is posting junk to myapp.com/xmlrpc.php in what I can only assume 
> is part of a generic hacking attempt.
> 
> I get: REXML::ParseException: Missing end tag for 'base64' (got "param") 
> Line: 1 Position: 5024 Last 80 unconsumed characters:
> 
> However the stack trace doesn't show a point in my app where I can catch it 
> as the error was thrown while parsing the XML from Rack.
> 
> Stack trace via airbrake: https://gist.github.com/3057978
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
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