[linux-elitists] Site duplication... is this widespread?

[Ben Finney]

On 20-Nov-2007, Tilghman Lesher wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 November 2007 09:09:43 Aaron Sherman wrote:
> > Watching my logs today, I discovered a ton of hits to internal 
> > pages (CSS mostly) with an external referrer. In fact, it was an 
> > external referrer that had duplicated every externally linked page 
> > on my site including the redirects (their root redirected to the 
> > same path as my mediawiki root, relative to their site).
> 
> Given that you control the CSS, you have a perfect opportunity to 
> make his entire site un-viewable, simply by changing the CSS when 
> the referer is set externally (white text on white background?)

Which will all end as soon as they decide to duplicate the CSS 
documents on their server as well.

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Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au>
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