Title: PHP fatal error
Last modified: February 12, 2020

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# PHP fatal error

 *  Resolved [webmasterfreya](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webmasterfreya/)
 * (@webmasterfreya)
 * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-fatal-error-199/)
 * Hi,
 * error_log
    [Wed Feb 12 07:17:28.847656 2020] [proxy_fcgi:error] [pid 9191] [client
   35.186.178.64:54886] AH01071: Got error ‘PHP message: PHP Fatal error: Uncaught
   Error: Class ‘getid3_handler’ not found in <path>/httpdocs/wp-includes/ID3/module.
   audio.ac3.php:18\nStack trace:\n#0 {main}\n thrown in <path>/wp-includes/ID3/
   module.audio.ac3.php on line 18′
 * access log:
    35.186.178.64 – – [12/Feb/2020:07:17:28 +0100] “GET /wp-includes/
   ID3/module.audio.ac3.php HTTP/1.0” 200 735 “-” “python-requests/2.22.0”
 * It’s a hacker directly aiming at module.audio.ac3.php without loading first the
   necessary class.
 * Blocked ip 35.186.178.64
 * Are these type of requests preventable (e.g block http-user_agent python-requests/
   2.22.0) or adding some code to the module.audio.ac3.php to catch the error?
 * Regards

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 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-fatal-error-199/#post-12427957)
 * Please do not try to modify core files. It’s more effective to block requests
   in .htaccess anyway. If you don’t use Python, blocking by agent is probably more
   effective than blocking by IP. You cannot add a `Deny` directive like you can
   with IPs, you need to block via rewrite rule:
 *     ```
       RewriteEngine On
       RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} python-requests [NC]
       RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [webmasterfreya](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webmasterfreya/)
 * (@webmasterfreya)
 * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-fatal-error-199/#post-12428067)
 * Thanks [@bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [webmasterfreya](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webmasterfreya/)
 * Last activity: [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-fatal-error-199/#post-12428067)
 * Status: resolved

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