Re: Authentication prompt for mbox downloads - Mailing list pgsql-www

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Authentication prompt for mbox downloads
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Msg-id 27801a77-d710-67ac-fa3a-928ed801f080@2ndquadrant.com
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In response to Re: Authentication prompt for mbox downloads  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
List pgsql-www
On 2020-03-30 17:27, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> And regardless of where we provide them we still have the same
> problem. The*reason*  we have that password there is to prevent
> automated scrapers from grabbing all that data. And that*does*  work,
> if we look at the logs of downloads of them. Yes, custom made scrapers
> that want to grab that down (which is what it's designed for)
> sometimes do, but we get*very*  few downloads from automated scrapers
> and crawlers.

Yeah, this thread is turning a literally one-line patch to refine an 
otherwise perfectly working system into a major reengineering project.

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