Re: Defenses against bad robots

John D. Pritchard (jdp@cs.columbia.edu)
Mon, 20 May 1996 13:09:04 -0400

> (D) Capture a robot in an infinite loop trap.
> (E) Trap the robot into retrieving "a gigabyte-size HTML
> document generated on-the-fly" (2)

obviously it's a bad idea to have one machine judge another "hostile", it's
better to just judge the other machine "not friendly" and not service it.

"I, Robot", and all that.

this is just an extension of the concept of closing down connections on
protocol errors, which is very widely employed.

-john