wysiwyg

possible to ban?

[keyplyr]

I see numerous wysiwyg referrers in my logs:

51: wysiwyg://21/http://www.apassion4jazz.net/

I understand this to mean that some one is pulling my site down to their local machine for whatever reason. I want to stop this. I have numerous off-line browsers, site reapers, downloaders etc disallowed in my .htaccess file.

Is it possible to ban wysiwyg editors as well? If so, would I write it like this?

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^wysiwyg [OR]

(edited by: keyplyr at 9:37 am (utc) on Mar. 28, 2002)

[littleman]

Yeah sure it is. That syntax should work fine if the UA starts with wysiwyg.

[keyplyr]

thanks littleman.

BTW - Since you answered my question, I came back to the forum and unchecked the "receive email when someone replies" option. However, the post now reads "edited...blah blah" and looks like I changed my question after you replied to it, which of course I did not.

[littleman]

I think there are plans to make that an option without having it appear as a modification in the future.

[keyplyr]

update: Actually, the .htaccess or the robots.txt is not keeping wysiwyg editors from pulling my site down to their local machine. In fact, the number is increasing - LOL

I now have about 12 sucking on my bandwidth. Any ideas how I can stop this.

[pageoneresults]

Is it possible that those are wysiwyg editors running link validations? I perform these validations each time I open a site and make any changes. Its a great way to keep yourself in check and also find those broken external links if they are not enclosed in javascript!

[wilderness]

<snip>I now have about 12 sucking on my bandwidth. Any ideas how I can stop this>

Just DENY the IP ranges in your htaccess.

[keyplyr]

>Is it possible that those are wysiwyg editors running link validations?

Well, that's a possibility except they rack up about 50+ page hits each per day. I'm just guessing that these are off-line, they could be any number of possibilities not all bad. They are accessing different pages. Is it common to see a dozen or so different daily referrals like this, and what could be some other reasons?

wysiwyg://41/http://www.apassion4jazz.net/

>Just DENY the IP ranges in your htaccess.

Yep, guess I'll try that if I do, in fact, decide to stop them - thanks

[Key_Master]

I have an answer! ;)

I can confirm that these [swelltech.com] web caching appliances use a wysiwyg referrer.

I don't think this is a referrer you want to ban.

[brotherhood of LAN]

You gotta remember those WYSIWYG preview modes too ;)

e.g. I make a page full of links, and click on them to see if they work.....will the referrer be the WYSIWYG editor on the destination hosts logs?

[Key_Master]

brotherhood_of_LAN,

Usually those will have a file:// prefix. Not saying they couldn't but I've never seen one log with a wysiwyg in the referrer.

[keyplyr]

I ended up just hiding *wysiwyg* in the analog report. Outa sight, outa mind :)