that was the answer I was looking for. how do I direct the request to a 404 page or some other function?
On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 5:21 PM, Niphlod <[email protected]> wrote: > shouldn't this question be raised to google than web2py ? > if this is unsolvable, wrap the entire thing in a try except raising a > HTTP(404) to avoid logging the error. > > > > On Wednesday, November 20, 2013 4:23:54 PM UTC+1, BlueShadow wrote: >> >> Hi, >> to increase my speed I have a fast downloadfunction for my images: >> def fast_download(): >> session.forget(response) >> cache.action(time_expire=604800)(lambda: 0)() >> # very basic security (only allow fast_download on >> your_table.upload_field): >> if not request.args(0).startswith("Images."): >> return download() >> >> #---------check which picture we are allowed to display-------- >> #----get the db entry and determine whether it is a small or big >> pic---- >> rows=db(db.Images.thumb == request.args(0)).select() >> try: >> rows[0] >> except: >> small=0 >> rows=db(db.Images.Image == request.args(0)).select() >> else: >> small=1 >> >> #print rows[0],small >> row=rows[0] >> if ...#some stuff to determine which image is shown (not relevant) >> >> >> from PIL import Image >> img=row.thumb >> filename = os.path.join(request.folder,'uploads',img) >> >> return response.stream(open(filename,'rb')) >> >> which works quite good. >> My Problem is that the google image bot tries quite frequently to access >> the function directly. which gives an out of range error. (268 in the last >> 3 weeks) >> part of one error ticket: >> >> File "/home/www-data/web2py/applications/Movie_Alarm/controllers/default.py" >> <https://www.movie-alarm.de/admin/edit/Movie_Alarm/controllers/default.py>, >> line 327, in fast_download >> row=rows[0] >> >> >> HTTP_FROM: >> googlebot(at)googlebot.com >> >> >> HTTP_USER_AGENT: >> Googlebot-Image/1.0 >> REQUEST_URI: >> /fast_download/Images.thumb.a791255ac1014c88.7466d626e61696c2e6a7067.jpg >> >> >> I tried to put fast_download in the disallowed part of the robots.txt >> but it seems to have no effect. >> and I hate having so many errors in my error database :) >> have you guys any ideas how I can prevent this from happening again? >> > -- > Resources: > - http://web2py.com > - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) > - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) > - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "web2py-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/web2py/fCwBUaMzfsg/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
