Re: Bots

[Michael Ryan <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm thinking the throttle approach would be good in the front end. It should
happen once per IP address (essentially), so this huge number of hits could
be decreased dramatically.

Captcha is an idea. It would certainly take care of the bot issue, but I'd
have to consider the intrusiveness. I may also ask for something like that
farther on in the process, so a casual browser wouldn't be affected, while a
buying customer would...but then it would be worth it to them (hopefully).

Thanks...

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen
<ravn@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

>  Den 21/09/10 17.39, Michael Ryan skrev:
> > I have a geocoding application where I take an incoming IP address and
> > determine the metro code. I'm getting hit with tons (seems like tons) of
> > bots. What's a good way of identifying bots? If I can identify them, I
> can
> > not perform the geocode function.
> Throttle the results.  Every IP-address can max resolve X codes pr
> minute.  If you keep getting many increase the response time further.
>
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