Hi,
a few things should be said in order to clarify the situation:
1. Nutch is NO SERVICE. Nutch is a free software project which is
subject to the Apache 2.0 license.
2. Nutch can be seen as a TOOLKIT to build a search application. To
create the search index a spider (the nutch spider) may be used.
3. The software (Nutch spider) forces a given user to supply a
customized agent-name using a configuration file. Without modifying
the source code it is not possible to advertise only Nutch as
agent-name. It would be sth. like me/Nutch or you/Nutch.
5. It is a pity that somebody is using this software in this way.
However, if this is bothering you that much you will have to take
steps against the person/party sending the spider to your domain
(IP-address?).
6. Unfortunately the nutch spider is sometimes (too often) used as a
site scraping tool. The spider can be used without the search/index
capabilities of Nutch.
7. A properly configured nutch robot will obey your robots.txt file.
With properly I mean configured as intended.
citation:
Thank you for your reply regarding the above and for any additional
information you can supply regarding steps that can be taken to block
Nutch once and for all from spidering my domain.
Well you could take your server offline ;). I really don't want to
insult you, but that's the only solution. Next time somebody will
modify wget to show the same kind of misbehaviour. Nutch is like
giving TNT-sticks to children (quote).
citation:
Please advise me how to block it permanently from my domain or i will
seek avenues to report your spider for its intrusive behaviour to the
major search engines possibly resulting in your domains removal from
their listings.
I really don't want to comment on that one . . .
However, regarding your site - I want to point out something:
citation:
ALL pages on blue-candy.com are copyright protected. Copying of any
page for any use is not allowed.
First, looking at your front page I found the following meta-tag:
meta name=Robots content=index,follow
Ahm . . . Well this will make any robot copy your site's content. At
least add noarchive to it (page is indexed, but the page itself is
not stored).
Second, you should add a rel=nofollow attribute if you want a robot
not to follow a given (for images . . . )
You're not alone:
http://johannburkard.de/blog/www/spam/this-much-nutch-is-too-much-nutch.html
The people developing nutch are serious people. Sorry that you are the
victim of some . . . well . . . script-kiddie. Probably some people
are more comfortable with modifying existing, well behaving code than
with using a mouse (or a download manager?).
I am just an individual and cannot/must not speak for the Apache
organisation. I am not affiliated in any way with them. This is just
my own private opinion.
Just my two cents,
Martin
PS: I hope your request for removal of your messages is approved
On Dec 7, 2007 9:55 PM, bluebrit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I just saw that my emails to you appear on this page
http://www.nabble.com/Fw:-Blocked-nutch-spider-accessing-pages-t4877480.html
It was not my intent for these emails to be made available for everybody.
This was a personal email between myself and you and was considered private.
Please remove all details regarding me from your database and remove the
emails from the above domain and relevant pages.
For your additional information in response to your reply on this page
however, you state.
Hi
I am sory for your bandwidth consumption but I do not think that is my
spider. You are right about robot.txt files. I did not read them because I
do not know existence of that file. Thank you for advice. But I never send
my spider to your domain. I crawled Only small amount of host and none of
them about your host. How can you be sure about that is my spider. Please
warn me if the problem continues and you sure about the spider.
Thank you
I can be sure it is your spider because my log file detects you and gives me
a link with a live url that I can follow. The link is live in this email at
the moment and it was in the past emails but I see you have removed the link
on the above page.
Nutch 608+203 3.02 MB 07 Dec 2007 - 01:57
If this isn't you, then you should have a safeguard in place that stops this
happening or gives each user a distinct number that has to remain in the
software for it to work. At least that way a method of tracking the users
would be available.
I also think your comment regarding your not knowing of the existence of
robots.txt files a bit unrealistic as you obviously have the knowledge to use
software such as this.
At the end of the day, there is no reason for software such as this to ignore
a robots.txt file unless it is attempting something it shouldn't.
Please take note of my above request to remove these emails from your pages
as I can see a future problem coming from this where my address is harvested
and I end up
