This latest info rules out JS-off or a noscript plugin -
On 30-Mar-09, at 1:22 PM, Frederick Cheung wrote:
>
> On Mar 30, 4:09 pm, Jodi Showers <j...@homestars.com> wrote:
>> I've been faced the the following symptoms for some time.
>>
>> I have links coded as :post or :put, so I can make sure that bots
>> aren't hitting particular links.
>>
>> But it something is either hitting them as :get through an error I've
>> made (like link_to not working well in some browsers?), or there's 1
>> or more plugins that pre load urls; or I have scrapers.
>>
>
> A browser with js turned off would also do this (or using a firefox
> plugin like noscript to only have it on for certain websites)
>
> Fred
Here's the markup where the link is:
<a style="margin-left: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; font-size: 16px; margin-
bottom: 60px;" onclick="Windows.overlayHideEffectOptions = {duration:
3}; Dialog.info({url:
'http://homestars.com/messages/201895-contex-roofing-company-ltd/new_company'
, options: {method: 'post'}}, {title:'Contact Us', className:
'bluelighting', width: 290, height: 450, destroyOnClose: true,
draggable: true, evalScripts: true});; return false;" href="#"><img
style="margin-right: 5px;" alt="Email Contex Roofing Company Ltd."
src="/images/contact_email.jpg"/><img style="margin-right: 5px;"
alt="Phone Contex Roofing Company Ltd." src="/images/
contact_phone.jpg"/><span style="font-size: 14px;">Contact: Contex
Roofing Company Ltd.</span></a>
The bot/human is reaching the url
"http://homestars.com/messages/201895-contex-roofing-company-ltd/new_company
", but you can see the href = '#' - so something is scanning the html,
looking for urls to harvest.
So looks like either a bot or a page preloader...
I don't mind pre-loaders - so I think I'll see if I can find a patter
in the plugins loaded..and if I don't find a plugin then this could
work as a honeypot.
I guess I don't have a specific question - merely symptoms - hopeful
that someone may have faced such a thing.
Jodi
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