Re: "DigExt" in user-agent hammering my site

1999-10-28 Thread Tobias Hoellrich
Randal, this is definitely Internet Explorer 5. I've seen the same several times on my site and here's how it works: In IE5 you can make web pages available for offline reading, you just need to go to Favorites/Add to Favorites ... and select the number of levels you want to download. IE5 will ha

Re: "DigExt" in user-agent hammering my site

1999-10-28 Thread Frank Livaudais
Randal, This is IE5. It has to do with the offline reading feature, it will try and download as much of your site as it can depending on what the user has specified in number of levels to download. It totaly ignores robots.txt. Frank "Randal L. Schwartz" wrote: > In the past week or so, I've

Re: "DigExt" in user-agent hammering my site

1999-10-28 Thread Jay J
- Original Message - From: Randal L. Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 28, 1999 9:50 AM Subject: "DigExt" in user-agent hammering my site > > In the past week or so, I've been seeing many many portions of my site > sucked do

Re: "DigExt" in user-agent hammering my site

1999-10-29 Thread Pete Ehlke
Randal L. Schwartz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said, on [991028 10:52]: > > The only thing in common with these rude intrusions is a windows-IE > user agent, along with a new string "DigExt". > > Is it a new version of IE that permits heavy rapid download? > Yup. Microsoft have had problems before with

Re: "DigExt" in user-agent hammering my site

1999-10-30 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Jay" == Jay J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jay> I just tried it using IE5 for NT4 .. Jay> What you're seeing is when someone has used "Make available Jay> offline" followed by: Jay> "If this favorite links to other pages, would you like to make Jay> those pages available offline too? [y/n

RE: "DigExt" in user-agent hammering my site

1999-11-03 Thread Eric Cholet
Randal, This is a nice package, but I have some questions: > my $host = $r->get_remote_host; > return DECLINED if $host =~ /\.(holdit|stonehenge)\.com$/; You have host name lookups turned on? That's not very performance friendly. And you've just published how to get around your thro