[mythtv-users] After 7y5m running, time to start from scratch after update to .27?

Paul Clark paul at aghast.co.uk
Thu Nov 28 12:47:32 UTC 2013


On 27 November 2013 15:03, R. G. Newbury <newbury at mandamus.org> wrote:

> On 11/27/2013 04:25 AM, Simon Hobson wrote:
>
>>
>>  If you then want to charge into that part of the map marked 'Here be
>>>> Dragons', you can add port forwarding to your router for external access
>>>> for mythweb,
>>>>
>>>
>  But you **MUST** protect MythWeb from bots - eg add passworded access to
>> Apache. If a bot crawls your recorded programs page, there's a "Delete"
>> link for every recorded program. Similarly, there's a "Don't Record" and
>> "Never Record" link against every rule on your Recordings Rules page.
>> Having those crawls is likely to significantly reduce the WAF !
>>
>
> That's one of the Dragons. Well, more like a scorpion hiding in the grass!
>
>
>>
Just an idea (as someone who had this happen to them) but shouldn't a dev
add a directive to mythweb to tell the bots not to crawl it?  Not sure how
these things work but there's a page
here<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots_exclusion_standard>that seems
to explain it.
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