Subj : Web server and BOT's
To : Richard Vonzel
From : Digital Man
Date : Wed Jun 25 2025 03:42 pm
Re: Web server and BOT's
By: Richard Vonzel to All on Wed Jun 25 2025 04:25 am
> Hello All.
>
> I turned on the Synchronet Web server, works great, hsad my website running.
> Had my BBS's files available for access thru it. Yesterday I guess a BOT got
> on my site and jst downloaded all the file I had available. Here's the log
> entry for this,
>
> 6/24 05:36:27p 3008 HTTP [20.171.207.62] Request 1825: GET
> /?page=001-forum.ssjs&sub=fsxnet_fsx_ads&thread=105 HTTP/1.1
> 6/24 05:36:27p 3008 HTTP [20.171.207.62] User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0
> AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.2;
> +
https://openai.com/gptbot)
> 6/24 05:36:28p 3008 HTTP [20.171.207.62] Request 1826: GET
> /?page=001-forum.ssjs&sub=fsxnet_fsx_gen&thread=177 HTTP/1.1
> 6/24 05:36:28p 3008 HTTP [20.171.207.62] User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0
> AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.2;
> +
https://openai.com/gptbot)
> 6/24 05:36:29p 3008 HTTP [20.171.207.62] Request 1827: GET
> /?page=001-forum.ssjs&sub=fsxnet_fsx_gen&thread=801 HTTP/1.1
>
> Is there a way to stop someone from using a BOT to take the files besides
> turning off the server?
You can disable the Files tab in ecWebv4 if I recall correcctly.
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