On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 12:21:42PM -0600, Jon Beck wrote:
> > I tried out the proxy.truman.edu:80 (from mercury) and I could not
> > access safari.oreilly.com ("as a" student) ...
>
> We're still locked out of the Truman safari account in general, so
> don't suspect the proxy yet.
>
> For a bit more clarification, activity that safari interprets as
> "spidering" is disallowed in the license. Various behaviors that
> safari interprets this way include writing a program to download all
> or part of a book, using various web access accelerators such as print
> commands that attempt to follow links, manually clicking rapidly
> through a number of pages, using Adobe Acrobat to read the site, and
> opening multiple links at once from a single page (such as multiple
> links on the table of contents page). Any of these activities may
> trigger safari's spider detection code and lock Truman out. So,
> please don't.
You know, Banner has the same bug in it, i.e. that opening many
links quickly is interpreted as an attack. Frankly, with tabbed
browsing, that is not so unusual behavior.
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Don Bindner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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