Re: Combatting automated download of dynamic websites?

Thats a good idea, it would just have to be coupled with a robots.txt
file to make sure that the legitimate spiders didnt follow it (I believe
he said he wanted google to be able to cache his page, I could be wrong
though, the original post was a day or two ago)

-Tony

> > > Michael Boman <michael.boman@gmail.com> 08/30/05 10:53AM >>>
On 8/30/05, Matthijs R. Koot <matthijs@koot.biz> wrote:
> Thanks for your reply zeno! But actually, referer-based anti
leeching
> won't do it for me and mod_throttle isn't suitable for Apache 2. I'm
in
> need of a throttling function based on something more advanced like
a
> 'request history stack' to check the order in which pages were
> requested, probably within a certain time period, et cetera. Maybe
it'd
> be better to move such security measures into the actual web
application
> itself, but I'm still hoping someone knows of a service-based
solution
> (i.e. like the beforementioned Apache module).
>
> Matthijs

How about placing a hidden link (around a 1x1 transparent pixel), and
get anyone who "clicks" on it banned?

Best regards
 Michael Boman

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