[drupal-devel] [feature] Add Referrer Banning

[eldarin]

Issue status update for 
http://drupal.org/node/27787
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 Project:      Drupal
 Version:      cvs
 Component:    base system
 Category:     feature requests
 Priority:     normal
 Assigned to:  Robin Monks
 Reported by:  Robin Monks
 Updated by:   eldarin
 Status:       patch (code needs review)

A useful feature for sites plagued by the spammers on the net - another
sad example is http://www.xmlrpc.com/stats/referers .




eldarin



Previous comments:
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Fri, 29 Jul 2005 17:02:30 +0000 : Robin Monks

Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/referring_banning_with_stat_fix.patch (7.9 KB)

The attached patch adds the following features to Drupal HEAD:


- Setting Access Permissions by referrer.


The attached patch fixes the following bugs:


- Port numbers on same domain cause Drupal to mark an external referrer



This patch changes the following modules, by function:


- user.module
-- user_admin_access_check Now allows checking based on referrer.
-- _user_admin_access_form Now has options for banning based on
referrer.
-- user_admin_access Now lists referrer bans.
-- user_help Show referrer banning in documentation.
- bootstrap.inc
-- _drupal_bootstrap Checks to ensure user is not banned by referrer.
- statistics.module
-- statistics_top_referrers Has "quick-links" for banning referring
domain.  Fixes port issue.


I have tested this module and it works correctly on Drupal HEAD.


Robin




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Sat, 30 Jul 2005 13:59:09 +0000 : Dries

What is the point of referrer banning?  To stop people from linking your
site?  I'd think this is only useful for 0.001% of all Drupal sites.




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Sat, 30 Jul 2005 14:05:51 +0000 : killes at www.drop.org

I've asked Robin to implement this because a referrer spammer was
spamming drupal.org with porn referrers. This was annoying because it
made the "top referrers" page basically useless. I only got rid of the
spammer because Kjartan grepped the apache logs for me and told me the
IP.




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Sat, 30 Jul 2005 14:32:08 +0000 : bertboerland at www.drop.org

dries, take a look at http://drupal.org/admin/logs/referrers [1]. mine
is even worse, nearly 15% of all referrers are pr0n sites. so i do
think it is usefull to ban based on referrer, not to prohibits linkers
but referrer spammers
[1] http://drupal.org/admin/logs/referrers




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Sat, 30 Jul 2005 18:41:33 +0000 : Robin Monks

This is also useful for sites that try to pop other sites into IFrames
(sometime invisable).  


This code does need review.  I want to make sure that this will work on
all server/OS/php types.


Robin




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Sun, 31 Jul 2005 10:32:37 +0000 : Dries

I'm still not convinced this feature is needed. I'm tempted to say
"won't fix" but I'll let this patch float in the review queue until
enough people showed interest in it.