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I have observed this, but also found that BingBot modifies the query string parameters of your URL. It does this by changing a character of the URL, possibly in
by rbut 4y ago
I have observed this, but also found that BingBot modifies the query string parameters of your URL. It does this by changing a character of the URL, possibly in an attempt to find new pages?
I noticed this because I generate links with a signed token to ensure integrity and started receving invalid token crash reports in Sentry, always from BingBot..
To fix this I had to move the tokens from the query string into the URL itself to avoid BingBot changing it. eg.
http://mysite.io/do-action?token=shvgaaehr2rnyxhh-391-1 http://mysite.io/do-action?token=shvgaaehr2rnyxhh-391-1
to
http://mysite.io/do-action/shvgaaehr2rnyxhh-391-1/ http://mysite.io/do-action/shvgaaehr2rnyxhh-391-1/
Anyone else noticed this?
- batch12 4y agoI would guess that this is probably done on purpose to avoid tripping one-time-use links. Seems like a good way to hide malware from the scanner though.
- throwaway14356 4y agoi imagine one could try use the location hash. it isnt send with the request
- liam_ja 4y agoI've finally found someone else who's seen this behaviour! I've noticed this too, and I found (in my case anyway) that Bing/Outlook seems to Rot13 the keys of the query parameters - is this what you're seeing too?