DISQUS

OMNINOGGIN: My Bot Trap in Action

  • Yayin Akisi Sinema · 1 year ago
    Is there a way to stop these stupid bots. I don't want my emails to get indexed by harvesters.
  • Thaya Kareeson · 1 year ago
    @Yayin Akisi Sinema
    Thank you for visiting. To keep these bots away, I've integrated Project Honey Pot Http:BL look-up into my site. These guys maintain a list of bad bots on the internet and you can use them as a look-up service to block bad bots.


    Currently, if a known bad bots visits my site, it will automatically be redirected to http://omninoggin.com/incognito/incognito.php (which is a dead-end page). If it is an undiscovered bad bot, it will stumble into my dead-end page (via an invisible link), and then its activities will get sent to the main Project Honey Pot database to be blacklisted.



    The harvester bot I talked about in this post was a previously undiscovered harvester. It's activities were probably sent to Project Honey Pot's main database after it wasted all this time on my site.



    Please stay tune to my posts. In my next post, I will release a WordPress plugin that will let you easily enable Project Honey Pot on your WordPress blog.
  • Thaya Kareeson · 1 year ago
    @Yayin Akisi Sinema
    As promised, I delivered Project Honey Pot Http:BL plugin for easily integrating Project Honey Pot's Http:BL API with your WordPress blog. Check it out!