Mod Security for apache2 blocks curl!

Question

I'm trying to get my users lat and lng from their address using google's geocoding api but when mod security is enabled it prevents it and the script timesout. How can I add an exception by ip or domain for this or just remove whatever configuration that makes mod_security do this? I am using the OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set Project

UPDATE:

[Sun Jun 26 13:13:14 2011] [error] [client 174.252.196.188]
 ModSecurity: Unable to retrieve collection (name "ip", key "174.252.196.188_fc2ccdca4bf1fc8585b77c1444811dedd59da612").
 Use SecDataDir to define data directory first. [hostname mydomain.com"] [uri "/admin/geocoding.php"]
 [unique_id "EIpfP38AAAEAAA2eAT0AAAAK"]

I added the line

SecDataDir /var/log/apache/modsec_SecDataDir

but now I don't get anything in the error log but the same behaviour!

Answer 1

If you can provide the lines in your log file showing what rule is causing the block it would be helpful.
An option would be to use SecRuleRemoveByID to disable the rule that is causing your block. Alternatively you can white list IP address using a number of different techniches which are listed here