Sure, Aaron. The way your first respond stood, it came across as if there would have been something wrong in your coding. But the crawlers, well I know of them, and of course they could cause trouble. Just didn't think you would have been that much of a target for them. Yet, as you state, they would have to be weeded out.
Is it possible for you, to obtain the serial number or some standard (yet hidden code) from the user, when he is downloading the app? At least, you then would have weeded out false crawlers, by the multitude. Another thing Aaron, how big is the problem with crawlers, do you think? Go and look at the list you sent out. Absolutely every app, from what I can see, has the date set for today. Yet, if this would always be the case due to crawlers, and some of the apps have been out for a year or more, we would have seen some kind of downloading numbers - wouldn't we? If we follow your logic all through, and say that crawlers will hit your Central once a day, we would see an app that has been out for twelve months, having a download number of at least 365. And, that is only from that one crawler. All false downloads? In addition, there would be all the real downloads. I don't know, but from the apps I have looked at, the download number is not anything close to suggesting that crawlers really is the biggest issue. And, if you can find a way of cryptizing the communication between the Real-User computers and your server, you should be pretty close to the real number of downloads, with realistic timestamping - I would think. ----- Original Message ----- From: Aaron Smith To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, August 09, 2013 3:50 PM Subject: Re: A small wanting for the App Central webpage On 8/9/2013 9:26 AM, David wrote: But that should be possible to alter, in the way your server does its timestamping, shouldn't it? And, if now you got that one smoothened out, would it then be possible to implement the feature? Sure, but that's not what the data shows. And the biggest problems is bots. Crawlers that access web content. They hit the download links too, which is probably what's skewing the data. I'll have to think about the best way to try to weed them out. Thanks, Aaron -- Aaron Smith Web Development * App Development * Product Support Specialist GW Micro, Inc. * 725 Airport North Office Park, Fort Wayne, IN 46825 260-489-3671 * gwmicro.com To insure that you receive proper support, please include all past correspondence (where applicable), and any relevant information pertinent to your situation when submitting a problem report to the GW Micro Technical Support Team.
