Re: robot causing problem

[mikeh@minivend.com]

Quoting Kyle Cook (kyle@invisio.com):
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> Mike, or anyone:
> 
> I had a robot come through and ramp the server up to a load
> of 8.0 before I was able to stop it. After emailing back and
> forth with the company responsible (gifwizard.com) they
> had this to say:
> 
> 
> >The link checking does a "HEAD" request instead of a GET.
> >So if the CGI program checks the REQUEST_METHOD environment
> >variable and sees "HEAD" all it is supposed to do is
> >return if the page exists, not the actual page.  This is a 
> >standard feature for http servers.  If the HEAD is not responded
> >to then we try a GET.  I think that is happening in your case.

Much more properly handled at the web server or in the link program.

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