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Trolling with robots.txt
From: irongeek at irongeek.com (Adrian Crenshaw)
Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 18:01:56 -0500
Nice, I'm just logging it, and forwarding folks to things that will damage their Psyche. :) Adrian On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Joshua Wright <jwright at hasborg.com> wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I have done this on a few websites I manage, effectively: $ cat robots.txt User-agent: * Disallow: /admin Disallow: /images $ cat admin/index.php <?php $to = "recipient at example.com"; $subject = "Robots honeypot from $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']"; $body = "User at $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] tripped robots honeypot.\nI could add more remote attributes such as User-Agent here\n"; mail($to, $subject, $body); echo("<html><h1>Congratulations, you found the secret page. Now email $to to avoid being blacklisted.</h1></html>"); ?> You get the idea. :) - -Josh Adrian Crenshaw wrote:Has anyone else ever considered trolling/honey-potting using therobots.txtfile on their site? Adrian ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list Pauldotcom at mail.pauldotcom.com http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) iEYEARECAAYFAkmGBUsACgkQapC4Te3oxYx5zgCfTimIuFulnMife869c2oVE7cM w3IAoI8npUdXSPKfW39Gw1oE+B2fk/7C =mdlt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list Pauldotcom at mail.pauldotcom.com http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
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