Content rippers or whatever the stupid things are called

[Juggler]

I have noticed my stats going very wierd going from about 250% outclicks to up to 1500% my first thought was someone cheating but I am pretty sure that is not the case, then I thought about the hitbotter who seemed to be doing it just to chuck a spanner in the works. after going through my stats for the last few days it hit that it would make sense that it it a content ripper going through sites ripping the content from galleries and after thinking this I went through my stats again and I am pretty sure this is what is happening.

Is there any way to tell if one is bieng used and blocking it also is there anyway to tell where it is being used

[Dan S]

Yes,

I have them in my TGP stats also, everyday.

1 of these bastards is gozilla
add these lines to your htacess:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Go!Zilla.*
RewriteRule /* - [F,L]

that should block gozilla, however it didnt stop when I added it. Somebody might hit me with a different software.

Anyone has a complete solution?

Dan

[Dan S]

Does anyone have a complete htaccess file to block all or most of these bastards?

I am trying to establish my TGP again, and these things seem to screw up my stats again.

Dan

[Filipe]

I think this is what you need
http://www.xxxwebhosting.com/bandwidth_protection.htm

[Due]

Filipe>
Thanks man http://bbs.adultwebmasterinfo.com/ubb/smile.gif
But the code is HUUUUUUUUUUGE
<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">
RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^DISCo\Pump.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Drip.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^EirGrabber.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^ExtractorPro.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^EyeNetIE.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^FlashGet.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^GetRight.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Gets.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Go!Zilla.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Go-Ahead-Got-It.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Grafula.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^IBrowse.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^InterGET.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Internet\Ninja.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^JetCar.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^JustView.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^MIDown\tool.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Mister\PiX.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^NearSite.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^NetSpider.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Offline\Explorer.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^PageGrabber.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Papa\Foto.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Pockey.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^ReGet.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Slurp.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^SpaceBison.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^SuperHTTP.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Teleport.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebAuto.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebCopier.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebFetch.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebReaper.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebSauger.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebStripper.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebWhacker.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^WebZIP.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Web\Image\Collector.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Web\Sucker.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Webster.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Wget.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^eCatch.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^ia_archiver.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^lftp.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^tAkeOut.*
RewriteRule .[Jj][Pp][Gg]*$ /leeches.html [L]
</font>
Won't it bug down the server?

[Dan S]

Thx a lot dude!

Any infos on problems with servers?

Dan

[snatch]

I tried to set up .htaccess as I submit galleries from my own domain, but I fouled it up :-) when the link to the galleries was clicked from a tgp it was redirected to my main page - how do I set it up to block hotlinkers/content rippers but allow surfers to click on the link from tgps? or maybe I am putting it in the wrong directory?? Help appreciated before I get blacklisted everywhere for redirecting!

[Muff]

http://w1.853.telia.com/~u85310357/guld.htm
http://bbs.bianca.com/mforums/t/themax/

heres two sites you can put on your list of sites to image src :-)

im sure someone on this board will find reffers from one of these urls. I did :-( but now the other one is imgsrcing the other + dialer pop-up haha fuck you. cock sucking freeloaders

Muff http://bbs.adultwebmasterinfo.com/ubb/smile.gif

[rhizome]

Can't you just put all images in the same directory and then only allow these images to be called from your own domain? So all you would need is something like this:

----------------------------------------

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.yourdomain.com.* [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://yourdomain.com.* [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.yourdomain.com:80.* [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://yourdomain.com:80.* [NC]

RewriteRule /* http://www.where-you-want-those-who-link-directly-to-your-images-to-be-redirected-to.com [R,L]

------------------------------------

[rhizome]

I forgot to add - you would then place the above .htaccess file into your image directory.

[Filipe]

I remember someone saying that codes on htacess don't slow down the server.
Hmm...was it you, Richard?

[snatch]

thanks Rhizome, that's what I'll do. Been messing around and need some TGSW help now - if I make a folder called images, and my code was
&lt;a href="{{IMAGES1}}{{IMAGE1}}"&gt;&lt;img src="{{THUMB}}{{IMAGE1}}" border="3"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;

how do I make TGSW look in the folder "images" to make the gallery? I have tried working out how to use the {{IMAGEDIR}} code from the help files, but it keeps saying it needs 16 pics
Thanks, Sara