By allen074 on
Ok - so I get 1000 trackback spams a day - I was thinking - if we change the trackback address daily/weekly - won't that help to combat some of the spam?
so right now its /trackback/nodenumber
let's change it to /trackback1234/nodenumber
etc.
possible? stupid idea? good idea?
thanks
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TrackBack Validator
Has anyone considered the implementation of something like the TrackBack Validator in WordPress?
Somehow it checks to see if the blog posting their trackback actually is referencing your blog. Sound very effective.
http://seclab.cs.rice.edu/proj/trackback/trackback-validator-plugin/
Thanks
Thank you for pointing out this plugin, our site was flooded with trackback spam and I found this article and decided to implement this in the trackback module. I had to include the "Snoopy.class.php" file and in the trackback.module file I changed the function trackback_receive(&$node) (I don't know how correct it is, but it works in our case). What we wanted was to filter content that is outside of our durpal installation by using the idea from the wordpress plugin, and if the author is from our drupal installation, then leave everything as it was. So here is the change in the module:
Works like a charm
This mod to the trackback module effectively eliminated 100% of all trackback spam I was getting - this is an amazing mod and should be considered for inclusion into the Trackback project page.