The 2026 Drupal Business Survey is open. Your response will help shape the future of the Drupal business ecosystem.I'm using the Mollom Module on a couple of Drupal 7 sites (latest 7.22 Drupal and 7.x-2.6 Mollom).
In 'Reports/Top 'Page not found' errors I'm repeatedly getting occasional errors that simply say 'mollom.com/false-positive' and 'false-positive'.
I have cleared my messages several times after having similar 'page not found' errors recently, but I'm still getting new and repeated 404 errors for 'mollom.com/false-positive' and 'false-positive'.
In the past I've usually clicked on 'Fix 404 pages' and added a redirect to 404's so that they don't reoccur, but in this case I have no idea where to redirect the 404 errors to.
Can anyone point me in the right direction as to:
- What would be causing the 'false-positive' 404 errors?
- Is there anything I can do to prevent them?
- Can I redirect these errors, and if so, where to?
| Comment | File | Size | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| #8 | 0001-Issue-1993888-by-sun-Fixed-404-not-found-log-message.patch | 9.42 KB | sun |
| #7 | mollom.urls_.7.patch | 9.04 KB | sun |
| mollom404PictureC.jpg | 17.33 KB | David Ipswich | |
| mollom404PictureB.jpg | 22.42 KB | David Ipswich | |
| mollom404PictureA.jpg | 21.68 KB | David Ipswich |
Comments
Comment #1
alliax commentedyes, it seems to me this bug has appeared in the last update, I see those too.
It seems simply that the modules call an url at mollom.com but forgets to use http:// so it is looking for the url on our sites.
It needs to be fixed soon because for sure some functionality is missing. I've also seen some HAM comments which don't end up in the comment queue, they just disapear, so maybe it is related.
Comment #2
jenyum commentedOn line 1517 of mollom.module add "http:" to the url.
Comment #3
jenyum commentedChanging status to bug report.
Comment #4
rob230 commentedI'm seeing the same. As jenyum says, the mistake is line 1517 of mollom.module:
$report_url = '//mollom.com/false-positive';Comment #5
jenyum commentedUnfortunately, I'm still seeing the errors in my log after fixing that line. Hopefully the maintainers will see this soon?
Comment #6
sunThese 404 (Not found) error log messages are typically caused by automated spam robots and web crawlers, which do not understand protocol-free/protocol-relative URLs in anchors/links.
A protocol-free URL skips the protocol part of the URL; e.g., instead of "http://mollom.com/web-service-privacy-policy", the module outputs "//mollom.com/web-service-privacy-policy". This makes the web browser automatically use either HTTP or HTTPS for the link target URL, depending on which protocol is used for displaying the current page. The Mollom module leverages protocol-free URLs in various places to keep its code simple. You can learn more about procotol-free URLs on http://paulirish.com/2010/the-protocol-relative-url/
In short, you do not need to worry about these log messages. Actual (human) users are able to access the false-positive report form.
However, we can try to fix this issue for the next stable release.
Comment #7
sunAttached patch replaces all protocol-free URLs to mollom.com to use HTTPS — regardless of whether the current Drupal page is delivered over HTTPS or not.
Comment #8
sunComment #9
sunThanks for reporting, reviewing, and testing! Committed to all branches.
A new development snapshot will be available within the next 12 hours. This improvement will be available in the next official release.