File name too long

  • Resolved Ambyomoron

    (@josiah-s-carberry)


    6 years, 8 months ago

    I am trying to make sense of an error message appearing from time to time in my web server error log:

    
File name too long: [client 180.76.15.11:18469 AH00036: access to /wp-content,_plugins,_woocommerce-gateway-stripe,_assets,_js,_stripe.min.js,qver==3.1.7+wp-includes,_js,_wp-embed.min.js,qver==06e7275a7c99077bae705c6be515f41e+wp-content,_plugins,_woocommerce,_assets,_js,_frontend,_credit-card-form.min.js,qver==3.0.5.pagespeed.jc.yX9zKgDClF.js failed (filesystem path '/somewhere/wp-content,_plugins,_woocommerce-gateway-stripe,_assets,_js,_stripe.min.js,qver==3.1.7+wp-includes,_js,_wp-embed.min.js,qver==06e7275a7c99077bae705c6be515f41e+wp-content,_plugins,_woocommerce,_assets,_js,_frontend,_credit-card-form.min.js,qver==3.0.5.pagespeed.jc.yX9zKgDClF.js')

    Is this just a hacker poking around, looking for defects, or does it represent a bug in the plugin?

    Any ideas?

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  • Thomas Shellberg

    (@shellbeezy)

    Automattic Happiness Engineer

    @josiah-s-carberry – sounds like this could be caused by a minification plugin. Do you have something like Autoptimize or some other plugin which performs JavaScript minification?

    Thread Starter Ambyomoron

    (@josiah-s-carberry)

    I used to have a minification plugin, but it caused other problems and I uninstalled it.
    I don’t understand the syntax of the GET command that is failing, what with the comma separated list of arguments.

    Howdy ??

    I did a DNS lookup on that I.P. address and it looks like it is a web crawler of some sort. My guess is that this is an artifact of the previously mentioned minification problem but this web crawler still has this URL indexed so still tries to access it.

    Kind regards,

    Thread Starter Ambyomoron

    (@josiah-s-carberry)

    Well, I can’t say I understand how a minifier would create a filename that is too long and what it has to do with the URLs that a crawler knows about, but since this seems to make sense to two different people, I will just chalk it up to one of the mysteries of the universe.

    Thanks for your help.

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