[Resolved] Stopping Bots and offline saves.

[Bah__Name]

I want to prevent people and bots from saving my whole site offline, if and when they add it to thier favorites.

I had an idea for stopping bots by timing how many pages per minute a session is reading. If it gets too high, it could be a Bot (or someone drinking way too much coffee), and I could disable the session. I could do this by using time-stamp code when each new page is requested.

Does anyone know if this will work?

Could this be applied to stopping users from saving my entire site offline? (like when you do it in windows IE explorer to a specified link depth).

[daveyboy]

that would work, but it's something that you should really be doing in the webserver or firewall, not your scripts.

checking the http-referer header and redirecting to your homepage if it isn't your own site might work - it depends on how clever the bot is.

[stolzyboy]

http referer is just about as reliable as a screen door in a submarine, and easily spoofed

you could just as well have a button for them to click that asks if they are a hacker, bot, etc.....

[daveyboy]

now, http-referer does take at least a modicum of skill to circumvent.

this, on the other hand, really is equivalent to a button saying "are you a hacker?":
http://www.oxyscripts.com/viewcode.php?id=26&view=1