MullinRJ Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 Why are spiders allowed to monitor Viewer Profiles? Raymond Quote Link to comment
MKingsley Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 Excuse my ignorance, but what's a spider. Quote Link to comment
Ray Libby Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 A spider can be used for different things. Google and other search sites use spiders to look at web pages to be able to document what's in them for a search. Ne're-do-wells can use them to harvest email addresses for spam purposes. Quote Link to comment
islandmon Posted July 30, 2009 Share Posted July 30, 2009 Good point ! both 'robot.txt' and '.htaccess' could conceivably limit page access for those pernicious bots. Keeping in mind that the profile records exist within the SQL ...it's also possible to prevent access to the various private data fields. Quote Link to comment
cad@sggsa Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 I'm still unclear on this one. Are these spiders a threat to user profiles or not? Why are they allowed to view the profiles? Quote Link to comment
brudgers Posted October 15, 2009 Share Posted October 15, 2009 Give me a break. If you put something on the internet, expect it to be indexed and searchable. If a website doesn't make something indexed and searchable, expect people to try to hack access to it. My advice: If you don't want information to be public, don't put it on your public profile on a public bulletin board. Quote Link to comment
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