On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Stephan Beal <sgb...@googlemail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 12:39 AM, Richard Hipp <d...@sqlite.org> wrote:
>
>> Both Fossil and SQLite allow user "nobody" to download ZIP archives and
>> tarballs.  Bots have not been a problem there, due to the spider defenses.
>> See http://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/doc/trunk/www/antibot.wiki for a
>> detailed description of the spider defenses.
>>
>
> The delayed setting of href until a mouseover is a really clever idea :).
>

Another idea might be to set the href to the HTTP Referrer (if set) when we
strongly suspect that it's a bot. That way any following of the links leads
them off-site.

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----- stephan beal
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