On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Ian Tester wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Jill Rowling wrote:
>
> > There's also the bot-trap where the ignorant bot wanders at its peril into a
> > series of server-side scripts with no way back.
>
> he he, some bot-bait!
>
> Make a link on your main page (or even on every page) and use <font> tags to
> make the text colour the same as the background colour. Or use a 1x1 transparent
> gif image instead of text. When a client follows this link (a CGI script
> perhaps), it is blocked. Is there some easy way to block apache access on the
> fly?
Dunno.
Years back I ran into a spider trap script. It generated
unique URL's each time it was called, so that a dumb spider
would get trapped inside and spin forever. No danger to humans.
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Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services Pty Limited
K'plah !~ /human/i # Klingon human detector
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