On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Jill Rowling wrote:
> There's also the bot-trap where the ignorant bot wanders at its peril into a
> series of server-side scripts with no way back.
he he, some bot-bait!
Make a link on your main page (or even on every page) and use <font> tags to
make the text colour the same as the background colour. Or use a 1x1 transparent
gif image instead of text. When a client follows this link (a CGI script
perhaps), it is blocked. Is there some easy way to block apache access on the
fly?
Anyway, graphical browsers (and their users) won't see this link, so only dumb
bots will follow it. You might want to be careful about text browsers like Lynx
or W3M. Make the text (or alt text) something like "BOT BAIT - DON'T CLICK THIS
LINK!"
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