Re: prefetching using cache-server statistics

From: Wojtek Sylwestrzak <W.Sylwestrzak@dont-contact.us>
Date: Sat, 3 Aug 1996 22:22:18 +0200 (MET DST)

Are these any generic servers or software or just custom built traps ?
Are they distinguishable in any way ?

--w

>
> Beware, there are robot traps built into some web servers, that if they
> detected a robot trying to download all of their pages, they will stop
> serving pages to the robot (some are designed to even cause the robot
> harm). This is especially bad if an organization's proxy server triggers
> the trap, and so prevents the entire organization for accessing that
> site's pages (this happened at PARC a couple of months ago, and we had to
> write to that site to be taken off their list of robots).
>
> Ed
>
Received on Sat Aug 03 1996 - 13:23:55 MDT

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