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How to prevent bandwith leeching on content?
i don't have specific download which people are leeching, but I have a database which produces pages which people are leeching and stealing my bandwidth.
I think I need to stop people accessing a certain amount of pages per day.
But I don't want to stop google bot or the yahoo bot.
I don't mind paying a small amount for commercial protection, $50 perhaps.
But I think the solution need to be PHP / MySQL based, I think.
Help ?
I think I need to stop people accessing a certain amount of pages per day.
But I don't want to stop google bot or the yahoo bot.
I don't mind paying a small amount for commercial protection, $50 perhaps.
But I think the solution need to be PHP / MySQL based, I think.
Help ?
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Erm, people aren't linking to my images, I'm just getting people downloading lots of pages for processing later to grab my information I think.
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I cant restrict information.
it seem to be from one ip at a time, someone downloading and scrapping it.
Can you recommend something specific ?
it seem to be from one ip at a time, someone downloading and scrapping it.
Can you recommend something specific ?
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<?php if ($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] == "XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX") {
This won't fix future occurences, I need something to handle it so I don't have to worry
This won't fix future occurences, I need something to handle it so I don't have to worry
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I can't do an outright block, password-challenge or captcha
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No its not a specific user agent.
I think the solution has to include the ip address
I think the solution has to include the ip address
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Because I've had 160gb of traffic from one ip address in one day
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Also their no using javascript and therefore doesn't show in analytics.
Hence a bot or program isn't spidering.
Hence a bot or program isn't spidering.
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