Web Wiz Support and Community Forums : URGENT: How to prevent download of entire forum https://forums.webwiz.net/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Tue, 07 Apr 2026 04:21:41 +0000 Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:34:04 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.08 360 https://forums.webwiz.net/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=23943 <![CDATA[Web Wiz Support and Community Forums]]> https://forums.webwiz.net/forum_images/web_wiz_forums.png https://forums.webwiz.net/ <![CDATA[URGENT: How to prevent download of entire forum : You can use the built in permission...]]> https://forums.webwiz.net/urgent-how-to-prevent-download-of-entire-forum_topic23943_post125607.html#125607 Author: WebWiz-Bruce
Subject: 23943
Posted: 27 July 2007 at 3:34pm

You can use the built in permission system to deny access to forum to unregistered users by unchecking the Access option in the permisisons system for Guest accounts.

If you have access to the server you can block IP or IP ranges in IIS if you know what IP address or range they are using.

You might want to also checkout Max Mind Geo IP for blocking access based on IP address
]]> Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:34:04 +0000 https://forums.webwiz.net/urgent-how-to-prevent-download-of-entire-forum_topic23943_post125607.html#125607 <![CDATA[URGENT: How to prevent download of entire forum : AFAIK, you can&#039;t stop them....]]> https://forums.webwiz.net/urgent-how-to-prevent-download-of-entire-forum_topic23943_post125606.html#125606 Author: billd3
Subject: 23943
Posted: 27 July 2007 at 3:24pm

AFAIK, you can't stop them. The server will serve up the page. I'm not sure, but there may be a way to block or secure file access based on IP, but it's my guess that's at the server level so you'd need server access.
I HATE harvesting like that! IMO, there is no legit reason for such software.
If anyone wants a backup of their own site, they can FTP to it and make a local copy of all files and folders. DUH, you do not need software like that to do a legitimate task.
If it's your site you have access to everything anyway, so why that software? Only for less than up-front and decent purposes, IMO.

I also suspect that they can't do more than "take" the files, which is no biggy anyway, but many also harvest images, etc.
]]> Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:24:49 +0000 https://forums.webwiz.net/urgent-how-to-prevent-download-of-entire-forum_topic23943_post125606.html#125606 <![CDATA[URGENT: How to prevent download of entire forum : Hi, I run webwizforums8.04 on...]]> https://forums.webwiz.net/urgent-how-to-prevent-download-of-entire-forum_topic23943_post125441.html#125441 Author: tex512
Subject: 23943
Posted: 25 July 2007 at 7:17pm

Hi,
I run webwizforums 8.04 on our servers.
The problem is that someone is using a product called  www.esalesbiz.com/extra/ to download our entire forum.
When they run this our computer cpu goes to 100% and everything grinds to a halt.
 
How can we limit the number of posts that can be viewed?
Or is there a better way resolve this?
Is it possible to only allow registered users into the forum? Would that resolve it?
 
I would appreciate a fast answer as they might try it again at any time.
 
Many Thanks
T.
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