Subj : Web server and BOT's
To   : Richard Vonzel
From : Digital Man
Date : Wed Jun 25 2025 15:42:12

  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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