[drupal-devel] [feature] Ban hosts from the 'Top Visitors' page

[moshe weitzman]

Issue status update for http://drupal.org/node/24135

 Project:      Drupal
 Version:      cvs
 Component:    statistics.module
 Category:     feature requests
 Priority:     normal
 Assigned to:  moshe weitzman
 Reported by:  moshe weitzman
 Updated by:   moshe weitzman
 Status:       patch

well, we can't store it in the sessions table because many crawlers
don't persist cookies and thus get a new session for every request. so
we would have to store in a new table and I figured that I didn't need
to add a new query for every page view. it would be a fast query, so
perhaps a new table is OK. any more comments about variable table
versus new table?




moshe weitzman



Previous comments:
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June 2, 2005 - 00:54 : moshe weitzman

Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/ban.diff (5.94 KB)

The intent of this patch is to provide an easy way to ban hosts that are
consuming too much bandwidth. Ideal for over-aggressive crawlers.




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June 2, 2005 - 00:59 : moshe weitzman

Attachment: http://drupal.org/files/issues/ban_0.diff (5.95 KB)

Oops. Here is the latest version.




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June 2, 2005 - 05:59 : Dries

Any particular reason we are not storing this in the database?  Storing
it in the database sounds like the better option to me.