--- title: "May, 2022" date: 2022-05-04T09:13:39+03:00 author: "Alan Orth" categories: ["Notes"] --- ## 2022-05-04 - I found a few more IPs making requests using the shady Chrome 44 user agent in the last few days so I will add them to the block list too: - 18.207.136.176 - 185.189.36.248 - 50.118.223.78 - 52.70.76.123 - 3.236.10.11 - Looking at the Solr statistics for 2022-04 - 52.191.137.59 is Microsoft, but they are using a normal user agent and making tens of thousands of requests - 64.39.98.62 is owned by Qualys, and all their requests are probing for /etc/passwd etc - 185.192.69.15 is in the Netherlands and is using a normal user agent, but making excessive automated HTTP requests to paths forbidden in robots.txt - 157.55.39.159 is owned by Microsoft and identifies as bingbot so I don't know why its requests were logged in Solr - 52.233.67.176 is owned by Microsoft and uses a normal user agent, but making excessive automated HTTP requests - 157.55.39.144 is owned by Microsoft and uses a normal user agent, but making excessive automated HTTP requests - 207.46.13.177 is owned by Microsoft and identifies as bingbot so I don't know why its requests were logged in Solr - If I query Solr for `time:2022-04* AND dns:*msnbot* AND dns:*.msn.com.` I see a handful of IPs that made 41,000 requests - I purged 93,974 hits from these IPs using my `check-spider-ip-hits.sh` script - Now looking at the Solr statistics by user agent I see: - `SomeRandomText` - `RestSharp/106.11.7.0` - `MetaInspector/5.7.0 (+https://github.com/jaimeiniesta/metainspector)` - `wp_is_mobile` - `Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; um-LN/1.0; mailto: techinfo@ubermetrics-technologies.com; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:40.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/40.1"` - `insomnia/2022.2.1` - `ZoteroTranslationServer` - `omgili/0.5 +http://omgili.com` - `curb` - `Sprout Social (Link Attachment)` - I purged 2,900 hits from these user agents from Solr using my `check-spider-hits.sh` script - I made a [pull request to COUNTER-Robots](https://github.com/atmire/COUNTER-Robots/pull/54) for some of these agents - In the mean time I will add them to our local overrides in DSpace - Run all system updates on AReS server, update all Docker containers, and restart the server - Start a harvest on AReS ## 2022-05-05 - Update PostgreSQL JDBC driver to 42.3.5 in the Ansible infrastructure playbooks and deploy on DSpace Test - Peter asked me how many items we add to CGSpace every year - I wrote a SQL query to check the number of items grouped by their accession dates since 2009: ```console localhost/dspacetest= ☘ SELECT EXTRACT(year from text_value::date) AS YYYY, COUNT(*) FROM metadatavalue WHERE metadata_field_id=11 GROUP BY YYYY ORDER BY YYYY DESC LIMIT 14; yyyy │ count ──────┼─────── 2022 │ 2073 2021 │ 6471 2020 │ 4074 2019 │ 7330 2018 │ 8899 2017 │ 6860 2016 │ 8451 2015 │ 15692 2014 │ 16479 2013 │ 4388 2012 │ 6472 2011 │ 2694 2010 │ 2457 2009 │ 293 ``` - Note that I had an issue with casting `text_value` to date because one item had an accession date of `2016` instead of `2016-09-29T20:14:47Z` - Once I fixed that PostgreSQL was able to [extract() the year](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/functions-datetime.html#FUNCTIONS-DATETIME-EXTRACT) - There were some other methods I tried that worked also, for example `TO_DATE()`: ```console localhost/dspacetest= ☘ SELECT EXTRACT(year from TO_DATE(text_value, 'YYYY-MM-DD"T"HH24:MI:SS"Z"')) AS YYYY, COUNT(*) FROM metadatavalue WHERE metadata_field_id=11 GROUP BY YYYY ORDER BY YYYY DESC LIMIT 14; ``` - But it seems PostgreSQL is smart enough to recognize date formatting in strings automatically when we cast so we don't need to convert to date first - Another thing I noticed is that a few hundred items have accession dates from decades ago, perhaps this is due to importing items from the CGIAR Library? - I spent some time merging a few pull requests for DSpace 6.4 and porting one to `main` for DSpace 7.x - I also submitted a [pull request to migrate Mirage 2's build from bower and compass to yarn and node-sass](https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/8288) ## 2022-05-07 - Start a harvest on AReS ## 2022-05-09 - Submit an issue to Atmire's bug tracker inquiring about DSpace 6.4 support ## 2022-05-10 - Submit an updated [pull request to migrate Mirage 2's build from bower and compass to npm and node-sass](https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/pull/8292) - This one is better than the previous one because it uses npm directly, which comes with the Node.js distribution, rather than requiring the user to install yarn - I also updated a bunch of grunt build deps