[thelist] Spider Attack

[Michael Pemberton]

BMP wrote:
> I need someone to advise me about preventing robot spiders from using excess bandwidth on my website. I know something about HTML, JS but Perl, etc. are not known. I have a robots.txt file, but I am not sure if the spiders searching my site are friendly or not, so I am hesitating about excluding them until I can get more information about them. The biggest abuser seems to be Mozilla Gecko. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Mozilla Gecko?

This is a valid browser.  It is most likely these hits are your visitors 
that are using Mozilla or Firefox.  Do not make any attempt to block 
this user agent.

-- 
Michael Pemberton
evolt at mpember.net.au