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

Stephen P. Villano stephen.p.villano at gmail.com
Thu Nov 28 20:51:24 UTC 2013


On 11/28/13, 9:55 AM, Matthias Thyroff wrote:
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> "Stephen P. Villano" <stephen.p.villano at gmail.com> schrieb:
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>     On 11/28/13, 7:47 AM, Paul Clark wrote:
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>>     On 27 November 2013 15:03, R. G. Newbury <newbury at mandamus.org
>>     <mailto:newbury at mandamus.org>> wrote:
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>>         On 11/27/2013 04:25 AM, Simon Hobson wrote:
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>>                     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,
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>>             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 !
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>>         That's one of the Dragons. Well, more like a scorpion hiding
>>         in the grass!
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>>     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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>     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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Mine has no exposure to the internet, it's all private network and well
away from the DMZ.
If I do put something onto the DMZ, it'd be a VPN connection only.
Can't be too careful!
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