security quirk

[RichD]

On Jan 30, Gandalf  Parker <gand... at the.dead.ISP.of.Community.net>
wrote:
> > Web gurus, what's going on?
>
> That is the fault of the site itself.
> If they are going to block access to users then they should also block
> access to the automated spiders that hit the site to collect data.

well yeah, but what's going on, under the hood?
How does it get confused?  How could this
happen?  I'm looking for some insight, regarding a
hypothetical programmimg glitch -


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Rich