Re: [Nms-cgi-devel] Re: ISP listing for nms formmail

[David S. - EliteUKServe.N. <dav...@el...>]

yes and a lot of them looking at the logs set the agent as IE :)

.NET is a new one to appear now ... sigh


----- Original Message -----
From: Nicholas Clark <ni...@un...>
To: Dave Cross <da...@da...>
Cc: David Simmons - EliteUKServe.Net <dav...@el...>;
<nms...@li...>
Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 5:22 PM
Subject: Re: [Nms-cgi-devel] Re: ISP listing for nms formmail


> > On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 04:47:59PM +0000, David Simmons -
EliteUKServe.Net (dav...@el...) wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > A suggestion:
> > >
> > > It would be nice to send a 400 type error to the screen when the
script
> > > rejects a user's/bot's post? Otherwise the scripts that these spammers
are
> > > using are still sending GETs & POSTs as they are getting a 200
returned. This
> > > obviously uses more of the ISP's and most likely customer's bandwidth
usage.
>
> I confess I'm only a lurker on the developers' list who hasn't even
> installed the NMS scripts, let alone developed on them, so I'm guessing
that
> the fail screen displays some sort of useful message to the user about why
> their message was rejected, and that this can be down to a genuine mistake
> that they have to fix. Presumably this page is currently sent as "200 OK"
>
> What happens on Microsoft Internet Explorer if you send this page out with
a
> 400 series error code? Does IE substitute one of its "helpful" error
pages?
> [eg the "maybe you typed the URL wrong" page, the one that is so
$expletive
> useful, as it comes up for DNS failure and file not found on the server]
>
> If so, this doesn't rule this idea out, but maybe it would have to be done
> based on user agent. Either by negative filtering (do it unless they say
> they're IE) or positive filtering (do it only if they provide a user agent
> and we know it's not IE)
>
> Do spambots typically set user agent strings?
>
> Nicholas Clark
>