[MM3-users] Re: [Django] ERROR (EXTERNAL IP): Internal Server Error: /archives/

Christian wrote:

Request Method: GET Request URL: https://lists.ccalternatives.org/archives/?sort=active%22 Request information: USER: AnonymousUser GET: sort = 'active"' QUERY_STRING = 'sort=active%22' RAW_URI = '/archives/?sort=active%22' HTTP_FROM = 'gptbot(at)openai.com' HTTP_HOST = '127.0.0.1:8000' HTTP_USER_AGENT = 'Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.2; +https://openai.com/gptbot)'

At the end of the provided query string was a double quote, which is an invalid sort mode parameter and produced the error. The %22 is a URL encoded double quote.

If the HTTP_FROM and HTTP_USER_AGENT are legitimate, this this appears to be an OpenAI crawler bot, specifically the GPTBot.