Posted by Joe Oldak on

Voice seems to be experiencing an unusually high load of spambots this morning, trying over and over to register/login.

We do have measures in place to block these, but they're using so many different ip addresses that the blocks aren't very effective.

I'll keep an eye on it to make sure nothing bad happens. In the meantime the system is running slower than usual due to all the load.

Thanks

Joe

2: Re: Spambots (response to 1)
Posted by Joe Oldak on

I've made some changes that will make spambot-blocking rather more aggressive.

What happens now is that Voice will always set a cookie using JavaScript, and browsers accessing without this cookie are blocked from posting forms (including the login form) and from endlesly loading the 'day' pages in the calendar.

Almost all spambots don't run the JavaScript, which means they won't have the cookie set. But real browsers do, so they will.

I'll keep an eye on this to see how it works out, but early signs are promising!

Thanks

Joe