Hi AM (??), --On Freitag, 27. September 2002 13:57 -0700 AM <list_subscriber@neurobs.com> wrote:
Hi, My site features an image repository which is available for free to all. However one has to download each image by itself.
Is there a way to block download managers and miners like... GoZilla http://tribolic.com/webminer/ (web miner) etc...
No. That means, it depends on how clever the user is, but usually no. You can write part of the html with the links to the images with obfuscated JavaScript. This might break the most "download managers". But if one uses for example Pavuk (http://www.idata.sk/~ondrej/pavuk/about.html ) You have almost no chance. Even analyzing the download rate and throttling the speed would not help. In this case you better offer your images prebundled as zip-archive to save your server from heavy load. Regards Tino