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From: Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design
Subject: Re: Chinese downloads overloading my website
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2024 06:08:15 GMT
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On a sunny day (Sat, 09 Mar 2024 20:59:19 -0500) it happened legg
<legg@nospam.magma.ca> wrote in <u14quid1e74r81n0ajol0quthaumsd65md@4ax.com>:

>On Fri, 08 Mar 2024 06:43:49 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
>wrote:
>
>>On a sunny day (Thu, 07 Mar 2024 17:12:27 -0500) it happened legg
>><legg@nospam.magma.ca> wrote in <6lekuihu1heui4th3ogtnqk9ph8msobmj3@4ax.com>:
>>
>>>A quick response from the ISP says they're blocking 
>>>the three hosts and 'monitoring the situatio'.
>>>
>>>All the downloading was occuring between certain 
>>>hours of the day in sequence - first one host 
>>>between 11 and 12pm. one days rest, then the 
>>>second host at the same timeon the third day, 
>>>then the third host on the fourth day.
>>>
>>>Same files 262 times each, 17Gb each.
>>>
>>>Not normal web activity, as I know it.
>>>
>>>RL
>>
>>Many sites have a 'I m not a bot' sort of thing you have to go through to get access.
>
>
>Any idea what's involved - preferably anything that doesn't 
>owe to Google?
>...
>I'd like to limit traffic data volume by any host to <500M,
>or <50M in 24hrs. It's all ftp.

I no longer run an ftp server (for many years now),
the old one here needed a password.
Some parts of my website used to be password protected.
When I ask google for "how to add a captcha to your website"
I see many solutions, for example this:
 https://www.oodlestechnologies.com/blogs/create-a-captcha-validation-in-html-and-javascript/

Maybe some html guru here nows?