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Re: Simulating web traffic
From: Lorenzo Hernandez Garcia-Hierro <lorenzohgh () tuxedo-es org>
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 19:26:18 +0200
Hi Valdis, El mié, 16-06-2004 a las 19:11, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu escribió:
On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 15:37:44 +0200, Lorenzo Hernandez Garcia-Hierro said:The best way to do what you wanted,in my opinion, is running a web spider as a cron job or from the rc of each system user of the rest of connected machines ( when the user logs in the spider
is executed andthe time will not appear to be a strictly timed job).Note that without *heavy* modification, it will probably be quite easy to distinguish a spider from a "real" user. Most spiders will stay connected for a long time, and end up visiting all the linked pages eventually. On the other hand, users will come in - as many as 80% will probably already have a page bookmarked to go to, and the others will hit the home page, and then the vast majority will go to your "most popular" links.
I think in the same way as you, it's needed to write and modify a large amount of code to cover the spider and put it appearing as a normal user. Anyway, we can set a small code to select randomly the link "spidering" ( of course , if you are not an internet adict you don't follow every link in a page as its order :D ) and deep of the spidering.
Looked at differently - if it's been at your site for 3 hours and is now looking at your press releases from 1998, it's either a spider, somebody conducting an info-gathering mission preparatory to industrial espionage or legal action, or somebody severely in need of a life.... ;)
;D Sure ! Cheers, -- Lorenzo Hernandez Garcia-Hierro <lorenzohgh () tuxedo-es org>
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