On 1/30/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thoughts anyone? Are there less drastic measures that might be taken to prevent this kind of abuse?
A couple of people here mentioned CAPTCHA's. This is sort of the standard for preventing automated abuse (intentional or unintentional), and there are lots of example implementations out there, maybe even in whatever "custom software" you use. :-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha Even if you don't go the CAPTCHA route, just forcing an HTTP POST to begin a download will probably filter out a large proportion of errant traffic or web bots. I see your robots.txt file is in order for the downloads area, but of course that's just a gentleman's agreement...
