Hi Richard, Thanks for answering.
I am from the Dragora community, too. On Sat, 29 Apr 2017 16:23:50 -0400 Richard Hipp <[email protected]> wrote: > On 4/29/17, Zachary Storer <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm a community member of a tiny Gnu/Linux distro called Dragora. > > < http://dragora.org>. We want to use fossil for our distro, but > > we've noticed that some users are unable to access the wiki due to > > JavaScript being enabled (I guess due to this issue: < > > http://fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/antibot.wiki>). > > > > You can disable the anti-robot defenses. Visit the Admin/Access page > to adjust the settings. Uncheck the "Enable hyperlinks for "nobody" > based on User-Agent and Javascript" button and then press "Apply" at > the bottom of the page. > > When you do that, though, hyperlinks will only be visible for people > who have logged in as "anonymous". The requirement to login as > "anonymous" is a kind of anti-robot defense that does not use > javascript. The reason for which Fossil is using Javascript is because the code is pretty effective to keep away the bots?. > You can further allow users to see hyperlinks without first logging in > as anonymous by going to Admin/Users and editing the "anonymous" user > to give that user "hyperlink" privilege. If you do that, though, your > site will become infected by robots who will download every historical > tarball, ZIP archive, "annotation", and diff, sucking up all your > bandwidth and CPU cycles. A robots.txt file will not help - the > offending bots all ignore robots.txt. Perhaps you can keep the bots > at bay by setting up a bandwidth-limiting proxy of some kind. Unchecking the "Download Zip" under Users -> Nobody could help to reduce the walk, true?. > Javascript is also used to draw the timeline graph. There is no way > around that. Either you enable Javascript, or you do without the > timeline graph. > > I wonder if you can be more specific about what your non-javascript > users are having problems with? Some people who have tried to access the site, were redirected to the "honeypot" page, they could not see the content of the site.
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