On Mar 6, 4:56 am, Graham Dumpleton wrote:
> Or you could just run web.py under Apache

That is true, however I am striving to move away from Apache as I now
see it as huge, clunky and ill-equipped for modern webserving. The
force pushing me to better server control is the insane amounts of
greedy robots constantly scraping my sites. For dynamic sites with a
large number of variables and actions, robots go crazy indexing every
permutation of URLs possible. This was not a problem "back in the
day", but the recent proliferation of custom searchbots software has
changed the picture. Some control over content delivery is needed.

My solution is to maintain absolute control over what IP address can
run what script, and serve up some harvestable content even to the
most frivolous search engine. I hope I am on the right track with
Web.py. My plan is to present occasional "Prove you are human"
questions to users, and keep an SQLite database of searchbots. If
there is already a system for effectively managing what content gets
served, please let me know about it.

Thank you.

-- Gnarlie

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