We’re being hammered by bots from all over. Our tech team are onto it, but blocking solutions are being overridden. It’s hard to stay online.
From posts around these forums I see we’re not alone, including Webmasterworld itself.
Last I saw on this subject here at Webmasterworld was here in 2005 [webmasterworld.com...]
Can anyone share some insights as to how to handle this,
thecoalman
7:30 am on Sep 20, 2025 (gmt 0)
AFAIK it's only used for guest features.
I need to walk that comment above back, caffeine levels were depleted. :)
You can login without cookies but every on-page link will have SID. It will expire after session lenght which is set to one hour by default and you'll need to login again. There is of course other checks in place to prevent session hijacking. This is also default for ACP but it's separate session. You can never get that link unless you are already logged in as administrator and you need to login again once you click it.
phpBB has a lot of guest features and that is why guest gets SID.
Kendo
11:09 pm on Sep 20, 2025 (gmt 0)
We’re being hammered by bots from all over.
What can be the motive? Do you have competitors?
Whitey
12:49 am on Sep 21, 2025 (gmt 0)
What can be the motive? Do you have competitors?
We do, but non that would be malicious or benefit from our content. Tbh we haven’t analyzed the motivation.
Everything on our e-commerce content which is the vast majority, is data driven onto templates and I wonder what could be beneficial to the scrapers.
I don’t feel we’re specifically targeted, but I have no factual basis perhaps to say that, just a hunch.
