For the life of me I can't recall the name of that program jill is
referring to. I remember stumbling across it when I was just browsing
months ago... damn.. and I since cleared history :(
On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Ian Tester wrote:
> 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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