Bad Behaviour

Torrential Web Dev

Thursday, September 7. 2006

Posted by Jonathan Street in Programming, Website Management at 22:13

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Bad Behaviour

Just a quick post today to flag what looks like an interesting tool. Bad behaviour analyses the HTTP requests at a site and attempts to identify spambots before they can post their comments or harvest email addresses etc.

Although originally developed for Wordpress it can be integrated into any website. I haven't had a chance to play with it yet but I can see it being a very powerful addition to Akismet as well as being handy in other situations.

My thanks to Ryan Malesevich for flagging this

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