Tech question

By Lisa on March 11, 2005 9:51 AM | daily misc | Permalink | Comments (1)

Our website (at work) is being hit by a lot of aggregators. Now, they're not aggregators in the RSS reading sense. They appear to be systems that, when given your log in information to a website, screen scrape the account information to show it with all of your other account information on a single site.

So my question is... if we have some javascript on our homepage (see below), will this bizarre aggregator thingie hit it (and therefore will we have one of these 2 images in our log files)?

Google isn't being very helpful (or I can't figure out what to use to find the answer).

[script language="JavaScript"]
[!--
document.write('');
// --]
[/script]
[noscript][img src="/images/NOjavascriptsinglepixel.gif"][/noscript]

1 Comments

GreyDuck said:

Er, if I'm understanding the question correctly... it depends on whether or not the scraper/aggregator code "does" Javascript. If it doesn't... the "nojavascript" image will probably get dinged.

I think. You might want to consult someone who understands this stuff better than I...

March 11, 2005 2:27 PM