[lug] Web crawler advice

George Sexton gsexton at mhsoftware.com
Mon May 5 16:04:07 MDT 2008



Nate Duehr wrote:
> MySpace and people deep-linking to content off-site is really annoying 
> on busy pages on their site too, but that's easily handled with a 
> rewrite rule to send them off to REALLY nasty photos (if I'm in a bad 
> mood) so they'll stop using me as their "image host", by linking to only 
> the images in my content and then loading 100 copies of it every time 
> some moron hits refresh on a MySpace page where some doofus has used my 
> images in their "avatar".

Someone on the newsgroup alt.www.webmaster used mod_rewrite to have the 
image redirected to a graphic saying "I LIKE LITTLE BOYS" when it was 
linked from MySpace UNLESS the person viewing was the poster.

So, everyone but that person saw the wrong graphic.

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George Sexton
MH Software, Inc.
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