"Framed" site

How can I prevent it?

[Lorel]

I just noticed that a search engine I've never seen before called "gaZebo" has a framed copy of one of my sites.

I assume it's something similar to taking a screen shot except all the links work, etc.

I suspect this is unethical. Is there some way to prevent it?

Lori

[vkaryl]

? You don't WANT to be indexed by SEs?

[Lorel]

Indexed yes. For them to have a whole copy of my site --no.

Lori

[mgream]

(a) Did they ignore your robots "noarchive"? If so, write to tell them to rectify their spider, and request removal of your content in the meantime. You could threaten DMCA take down against them for the infringement of your copyright.

(b) Do you not have a robots "noarchive"? Then you've allowed the SE to cache your content, and you have no specific recourse other than to change your setting for future use. (you can't force them to remove the content as you effectively allowed them to have it - if you didn't know about robots "noarchive", this wouldn't be an excuse because all webmasters are assumed to be aware of it).

(c) Do you specifically allow "archive" or implicitly in case (b), but the problem is they are "framing" or storing your archive inappropriately? You need to contact them to tell them this is a problem and unacceptable. Strong words asking them to cease and desist.

[Krapulator]

You can automatically break you site out of the frames by using the following script in the head of each document:

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
if (parent.frames.length > 0)
{parent.location.href = location.href;}
-->
</script>

[Lorel]

Thanks for the tips.

Putting that code, or any code, on each page of my site and all other sites I manage is an indominatable task--too many pages.

I've been reading through another thread on preventing such sites using the .htaccess file in the PHP Server Side Scripting thread-- forum93.

take care
Lori

[photon]

Could you post the URL of that thread?

Thanks.