failsafe error in rails 2.1 RC1 - ip spoofing

rubyonrails-talk
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Hi All,

I am getting the following errors in my app using RC 1 of Rails 2.1. These errors only appear to be happening for search engine bots/crawlers, but since my site needs to be indexed, I would like to get rid of them. Does anyone know if there is a fix, or perhaps a config option not to check for ip spoofing?

/!\ FAILSAFE /!\ Sat May 31 11:12:54 -0400 2008

Status: 500 Internal Server Error

IP spoofing attack?!

HTTP_CLIENT_IP=“67.195.44.101”

HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR=“67.195.44.101, 67.195.37.172”

Thanks,

Sean

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did you try this patch?

http://rails.lighthouseapp.com/attachments/25763/forwarded_client_ip_with_test.patch

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Thanks for the link to the patch, but why would one have to patch rails in order to avoid these failsafe errors. They are being caused exclusively buy yahoo’s crawlers/bots, but isn’t everyone else’s site being crawled by them as well? Is everyone else’s site getting these errors as well?

Thanks,

Sean

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i'm seeing this a lot with the release version of rails 2.1

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Please, can you specify how to aply the patch, I do:

MacBook:rails$ patch -p0 < forwarded_client_ip_with_test.patch can't find file to patch at input line 15 Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option? The text leading up to this was:

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Is anyone else seeing these errors? I've just hit upon it while setting up a cluster. Rails 2.1.