Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder1.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Christoph M. Becker" Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript Subject: Re: onclick and tag question Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 18:29:57 +0100 Organization: solani.org Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <2047696.ZRK4UxyjuH@PointedEars.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: solani.org 1426786191 1544 eJwFwYEBwCAIA7CXQGjBc2Yd/59ggqBTlQQTg4lr4XnZf+m4ds83u80GXV6WYpu0lq0IHMQDEYcQPA== (19 Mar 2015 17:29:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@news.solani.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 17:29:51 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.5.0 X-User-ID: eJwFwQkBwDAIA0BLbYEAcngW/xJ2Z4KLcYVBjUZwZjPLm/XAZVDP7Aaj76CfCzzKDr8e0fwBRZISOA== In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:KVNpx0XiYqNQRjkovej1kJAgm9o= X-NNTP-Posting-Host: eJwFwYEBwDAEBMCVivdhHBX2HyF3bhT2AZ3w9c2Msf4WuCZzz5Qqg7Xa/gdhLfTMJoks4gEYcRCO Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.javascript:27080 Mel Smith wrote: > My intent is to force users to actually 'click' on the download anchor > rather than using automated 'Gets' via Curl or other methods of automating > downloads. My downloads range in size from 14Meg thru 29Meg, and some > 'abusers' start up 25-50 downloads simultaneously, then '206' then and let > some continue. But if I force the downloader to actually 'click' on the > file, this may discourage them from 'practicing on me and my small home > office site. Maybe ! Well, it pretty much appears that those "abusers" are actually download managers. If the web server is able to deliver partial content, I wouldn't worry about those, because they won't increase the overall bandwidth considerably. -- Christoph M. Becker