On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 06:41:18PM +0100, Jens Frank wrote:
On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 07:33:46AM -0700, Fred Bauder wrote:
How does one disable editing by bots such as the one RamMan used?
There is no easy way to do so. Your server has no means to distinguish between a human editor or a bot.
The technique used by most websites to get rid of bots is to force the user to type in a text that is presented to the user in an image. Ideally, the image should be hard to scan by a computer.
This is extremely stupid technique of course - it does much more to annoy users than to prevent an attack. Just make a policy that bots should not be used on your site.