Hi,
First, sorry for my poor english.

After active the gtranslate_links-6.x-1.4 a lot of "access denied" started to appear on my dblog for each page what I access with my authenticated user. But all works fine without any error message.
A curious is this "access denied" appear with user Anonymous, and not with my authenticated user.

For anonymous users what access my site, all works fine and no log are generated.

I already rebuild access permission, and have no effect

This is a copy of my last dblog (interface is in Portuguese).

aviso	access denied	28/08/2009 - 21:02	admin/build/block	Anônimo	
aviso	access denied	28/08/2009 - 21:02	admin/build	Anônimo	
aviso	access denied	28/08/2009 - 21:01	admin/build/modules	Anônimo	
aviso	access denied	28/08/2009 - 20:57	admin/build/modules	Anônimo	
aviso	access denied	28/08/2009 - 20:56	admin/reports/dblog	Anônimo	
aviso	access denied	28/08/2009 - 20:56	admin/settings/performance	Anônimo	
aviso	access denied	28/08/2009 - 20:56	admin/settings/performance	Anônimo	
aviso	access denied	28/08/2009 - 20:54	admin/reports/dblog	Anônimo

This is the content of one this logs:

Detalhes
Tipo	access denied
Data	sexta-feira, 28 Agosto, 2009 - 21:02
Usuário	Anônimo
Localização	http://******.com.br/informix/admin/build/block
Referência	
Mensagem	admin/build/block
Severidade	aviso
Nome do servidor	***.101.17.230
Operações

If I deactivate the gtranslate_links module, this logs stops appear.

Comments

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blinkingtwelve commented
Assigned: ceinmart » Unassigned
Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

Your report is clear, complete and thorough, and that often is more valuable than perfect English ;-)

In short: It's a feature, not a bug.

Long story: Google Translate accesses your site as an anonymous visitor. Therefore, it can't access some of your pages. It would be of no use to display the flag block on those pages; it might even cause confusion and/or disappointment. Sadly, Drupal doesn't seem to have a mechanism in place to answer the question 'is this page accessible for the anonymous user?'. It has one for *nodes*, but not for arbitrary URLs.
To answer this question, then, the module does a HTTP HEAD request on the 'current' URL as the anonymous user. There is a performance impact, but it's quite low, especially if PHP is compiled with libcurl support and caching is enabled.