[mythtv-users] Please tell me if I'm losing my mind:

[Michael T. Dean]

[Mess of  top-/bottom-posts re-formatted so this actually makes sense...]

Mark Kundinger wrote:

>--- Jeff Simpson <llcooljeff at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>On 10/6/05, Tj <htpc at treblid.dyndns.org> wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>Do you have mythweb running? Is it protected from the Internet?
>>>
>>>Maybe some body has found your site on google and decide what you can see, and what you can't.. :p
>>>      
>>>
>>Or more likely, something is spidering mythweb and thus clicking on
>>every delete link in the process
>>
>Okay, I can fairly simply test that by just turning httpd off (or
>blocking port 80) for a week or so and see if that really is the
>problem.
>  
>
Sure--if you prefer indirect evidence.  Or, for direct evidence, you can 
simply check your mythweb access logs for lines like:

XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX - bobsmyth [25/Sep/2005:07:36:16 -0400] "GET 
/myth/recorded_programs.php?delete=yes&file=%2Fvideo%2Fmythtv%2F1024_20050919230000.mpg 
HTTP/1.1" 302 27

(although, without authentication, you shouldn't have a 
username--bobsmyth--in there.)

>Is there a more "correct" way to protect my MythWeb from hackers and/or
>spiders?
>
robots.txt ( http://www.searchengineworld.com/robots/robots_tutorial.htm 
) can be used to tell robots how to index a site, but you shouldn't be 
allowing them access in the first place...

Mike