Re: [Phpgedview-talk] Disabling Calendar

[Dick M. <di...@fo...>]

waldo kitty wrote:

>>     I've got a problem with having my phpgedview site being 
>> recursively copied.  It seems to happen about once a week.  It's not 
>> logged-in so the data is not a problem. The difficulty is that when 
>> the calendar is copied it becomes an infinite download; there is 
>> always a next year.
>>
>> I need to stop this because of the bandwidth being used. 
> 
> what or who is copying your site like this? if it is google or one of 
> the other well behaved spiders, then use the robots.txt file in the root 
> of your site to tell them to stay out of that area and/or calendar.php 
> file ;)

No it's not a well behaved robot.  It's coming from a dial-up address - it's 
also a bit dumb - why would they want gigabytes of empty calendar.  I've blocked 
it in the firewall a couple of times but of course with dial-up the address 
keeps changing. What's amazing is they keep trying every few seconds for several 
days after their IP has been blocked.

Dick