2013-11-22, 12:09 AM
It's astonishing that someone would care to make a bot that downloaded random files repeatedly. I can't picture any motivation for doing that since the bandwidth would actually cost the bot money and the files wouldn't be useful to anyone without context.
Is there any record of the IP addresses for the computers doing the downloading? I wonder if it's private-made purely malicious agents or a glitch/side-effect of some commercial agent like Google Analytics. If the site's robot.txt isn't already set to "disallow", it wouldn't hurt to do so. I also think putting the download links behind a login is a good idea.
Is there any record of the IP addresses for the computers doing the downloading? I wonder if it's private-made purely malicious agents or a glitch/side-effect of some commercial agent like Google Analytics. If the site's robot.txt isn't already set to "disallow", it wouldn't hurt to do so. I also think putting the download links behind a login is a good idea.