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

Matthias Thyroff lists at thyroff.net
Thu Nov 28 14:55:25 UTC 2013



"Stephen P. Villano" <stephen.p.villano at gmail.com> schrieb:
>
>On 11/28/13, 7:47 AM, Paul Clark wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On 27 November 2013 15:03, R. G. Newbury <newbury at mandamus.org
>> <mailto: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. 
>>
>>
>>
>The robots.txt file would stop a "law abiding" service like Google, it
>wouldn't stop non-compliant spiders, malware or nefarious individuals.
>
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Well I do not know what others think about this, but my Apache at home is purely private and serves web pages outside home only via SSL and password protected.


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