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Every single one of his search examples "that breaks Bing" works for me just fine. Either Bing fixed this the same hour his blog post was made, or he just ran

Every single one of his search examples "that breaks Bing" works for me just fine. Either Bing fixed this the same hour his blog post was made, or he just ran into a temporary snag. And his Google search of the error code on Bing is just that, a snapshot of a temporary error that has no correlation to any particular keyword in the url.

chaosmachine 15y ago
I'd be interested in which browser you're using, and if you could check with a different one. I mention in the article that some browsers seem to be redirected before the bot filter kicks in (IE9, for example, but not IE8). You can see the results of the bug on about 50 browsers here: http://browsershots.org/http://www.bing.com/explore?q=topic+view http://browsershots.org/http://www.bing.com/explore?q=topic+...
- cbr 15y ago
  I get the crash in safari on osx but not firefox or chrome
- akarambir 15y ago
  Keeping these query things aside, Bing is not even loading in Opera mini 6 !
- matmann2001 15y ago
  Works fine in Opera!
- timtadh 15y ago
  It seems to be related to whether or not you have a bing cookie in your browser or not. I can turn on private browsing have them fail, then use a session with a bing cookie and have them succeed.
Macha 15y ago
They all consistently fail for me, Firefox 5 on Linux.
- reinhardt 15y ago
  Ditto; same with Chrome, wget and curl.
jonknee 15y ago
No dice for me with Chrome on a Mac.
city41 15y ago
The "what topics do they discuss on the view?" search initially failed for me. So I went directly to Bing and typed it in manually and it worked from there on out, even going back and clicking the link in the article.
fhars 15y ago
Bing seems to do refer[r]er and/or cookie checking. If I enter the search on www.bing.com or have a cookie from bing, a search for phpbb produces results, if I clear all all bing cookies and enter http://www.bing.com/search?q=phpbb http://www.bing.com/search?q=phpbb in the location bar, I get the error.
- benologist 15y ago
  Same for me.
  - lukesandberg 15y ago
    browsing in an incognito window should reproduce the error.
    - damusnet 15y ago
      it does
- nikcub 15y ago
  an unsophisticated fix for an unsophisticated exploit if the exploit supported cookies and could mimic IE it would bypass this form of blocking
  - deleted 15y ago
    [deleted]
- glimcat 15y ago
  That link works for me (or rather, dies and gives an error). By way of giving multiple data points.
- jimbobimbo 15y ago
  This. Clean history - Bing spits an error, visit bing.com, then search - everything's fine.

chaosmachine 15y ago

I'd be interested in which browser you're using, and if you could check with a different one. I mention in the article that some browsers seem to be redirected before the bot filter kicks in (IE9, for example, but not IE8). You can see the results of the bug on about 50 browsers here: http://browsershots.org/http://www.bing.com/explore?q=topic+view http://browsershots.org/http://www.bing.com/explore?q=topic+...

cbr 15y ago
I get the crash in safari on osx but not firefox or chrome
akarambir 15y ago
Keeping these query things aside, Bing is not even loading in Opera mini 6 !
matmann2001 15y ago
Works fine in Opera!
timtadh 15y ago
It seems to be related to whether or not you have a bing cookie in your browser or not. I can turn on private browsing have them fail, then use a session with a bing cookie and have them succeed.

Macha 15y ago

They all consistently fail for me, Firefox 5 on Linux.

reinhardt 15y ago
Ditto; same with Chrome, wget and curl.

jonknee 15y ago

No dice for me with Chrome on a Mac.

city41 15y ago

The "what topics do they discuss on the view?" search initially failed for me. So I went directly to Bing and typed it in manually and it worked from there on out, even going back and clicking the link in the article.

fhars 15y ago

Bing seems to do refer[r]er and/or cookie checking. If I enter the search on www.bing.com or have a cookie from bing, a search for phpbb produces results, if I clear all all bing cookies and enter http://www.bing.com/search?q=phpbb http://www.bing.com/search?q=phpbb in the location bar, I get the error.

benologist 15y ago
Same for me.
- lukesandberg 15y ago
  browsing in an incognito window should reproduce the error.
  - damusnet 15y ago
    it does
nikcub 15y ago
an unsophisticated fix for an unsophisticated exploit if the exploit supported cookies and could mimic IE it would bypass this form of blocking
- deleted 15y ago
  [deleted]
glimcat 15y ago
That link works for me (or rather, dies and gives an error). By way of giving multiple data points.
jimbobimbo 15y ago
This. Clean history - Bing spits an error, visit bing.com, then search - everything's fine.