Scripted framing

just despicable

[MadMax101]

Ok so one day a site mails me if it could frame to two of my pages.
I agreed because I thought that's a good way for more visitors, and besides the sections of the page filled with that other site's ads or whatever, they can still see all of the content on my site INCLUDING the ads.

But while browsing thru the list of urls from which people came to my site I found theirs and when I opened it I was shocked to see the most recent version of my site with all the ads AND links cut-out.

What worries me is that there could be more sites like this basically stealing my bandwidth behind my back.

And im no f mother teresa to be paying for the server so they can have free content on their scapper site

This is a big problem for me because I don't own a article site where it would be easier to copy n paste the text than to frame it, but an on-line games one, where gamefiles can get pretty large and when multiplied by thousands of visotrs per day can really increase the host bill.

Is there anyway of blocking such scripts?

Thx

[ann]

you might be able to cure it with this little bit of break out of frames Javascript I found here on ww.

Put it between the head tags. This one does not disable the back button so it does not break adsense t&c.

<script language="JavaScript1.1" type="text/JavaScript"><!-- // hide from old browsers
if (parent.frames.length > 0) top.location.replace(document.location); // Escape from any referring site's frame, but preserve one-click "Back". --></script>

I have it on 99% of my pages, put there after finding out ask jeeves frames the search results when a searcher clicks on a site.

[incrediBILL]

You can just block their server by IP address (stops the visitors though) or just redirect to your site when they are the referrer pulling the pages. Do it in .htaccess and it's server wide, no page by page edits required.

[MadMax101]

Thx a bunch Ann, that is certainly helpful.

and yes bill I'll do that if they won't pull down the page like I mailed them, but I'm more interested in the sites I don't know about.

Thx again Ann :)

[vincevincevince]

more interested in the sites I don't know about.

For this you have to look in your Log Files. Analysise the referers. I often check every single referer in a day for a site if I want to weed out such issues.

[MadMax101]

I did find the site in the logs but what's scary is that I found it by coincidence when clicking on the last (had 1 hit) url from a list of about a 1000. I'm not sure but it seems that the framing itself was not recorded in the logs (it must have had more visitors then 1 - it's a very popular site), and the hit must have been from the link within the game-file (flash). And I can't go thru 1000 links every week or so.

Well anyway, just looked at the url, it's been taken down ^_^ (about time you ba5tards lol)

[ann]

Don't forget, Ask Jeeves also frames the results that have been clicked on.

If your site is searched for and clicked on then when ask jeeves serves it up it is in frames.

Ann