I do use nobody to download zip, and this is the way I do distribute some
releases with out having the need of having to host a distfile somewhere,
that is pretty convenient.

So far no problems at all.

regards,
Bapt


2013/6/11 Stephan Beal <[email protected]>

> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Stephan Beal <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 12:39 AM, Richard Hipp <[email protected]> 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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