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Spider Trap?


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I see a file indexed called "spidertrap.php" I am running the trial version. I need to know what this file is and what it does. There is no such file in the directory, so it must be something being done on the fly.

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I googled spidertrap.php and found this link

http://ken.coar.org/Podium/show.php?p=phpblock&slide=10

How this file got on the above users site is probably from their HOST

spidertraps are their to stop spiders that dont follow the robots.txt

(spam spiders) but can cause other kinds of harm like getting your site dropped from google

Kinetic

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Guest M i k e

Yes, thanks for the info Al and Kinetic

I've set my CubeCart up on HostGator.... they seem to have a good reputation, but I have never used them before.

Very interesting indeed.
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