[mythtv-users] Google ate my recordings

[Cool Frood]

On 10/24/06, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Oct 24, 2006, at 12:12 PM, Glenn Chubak wrote:
>
> > First, I do recognize that I am an idiot and that this is entirely
> > my fault.
> > The point of this post is mostly a reminder to not be stupid like me.
> >
> > I recently migrated my myth install to a new server and rather than
> > setup the
> > appropriate security on mythweb I just blocked outside access.  It
> > was good
> > enough for the moment.  My daughter's first birthday comes along
> > and I want
> > to through a video up for an aunt that couldn't come so I (ENTIRELY
> > without
> > thinking) enable http access from outside on the server.  Stupid!
> > The next
> > day my wife says that about 3:00 all of the recordings disappeared
> > from myth.
> > Strange...  I begin investigating and find that they have been
> > deleted from
> > the web interface.  Checking the apache access logs reveals that
> > the culprit
> > is none other than googlebot which seems to have crawled my pages and
> > followed the link into mythweb.  googlebot seems to have followed
> > the delete
> > links and voila no more recordings.
> >
> > I would have thought that mythweb "Are you sure?" dialogs would
> > have stopped
> > the googlebot but it doesn't seem so.  If anyone is interested I
> > can post the
> > access logs from apache.
>
> You're certainly not the first. Check the thread "Visit from the
> Googlebot" in the archives.


Does the Googlebot or Yahoobot or whateverelsebot come looking on
something other than port 80?  I've got my webserver configured on
some other port.  Sure, I should perhaps have better security, but I'm
lazy.