Re: Oracle Portal: Get visitor IP Address

[Quoted] Tiago Rocha wrote:

> On 7 Apr 2004 08:59:15 -0800, yf110_at_vtn1.victoria.tc.ca (Malcolm Dew-Jones) wrote:
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> Do you know what's funny and sad at the same time? Yesterday evening, before leaving work, I put the
> code Robert gave me (tks again Robert) on the production database and went home. This morning, I
> performed a select on the log table and there was the first entry at 2am. That's weird, who would be
> looking for health care insurance at 2am? So I traced that IP and found that was a robot based in
> San Francisco (US), probably looking for email addresses to spam...
>
More likely a search engine crawling your site and indexing your pages. You can add a file called robots.txt that will tell the robots which pages to (or not to) spider.

http://www.searchengineworld.com/robots/robots_tutorial.htm http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/robots.html Received on Wed Apr 07 2004 - 22:00:15 CEST