Do BOT's trigger the count?

[MarkHoward]

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Hi. Firstly, what a very useful script this is. Thank you.
Can you tell me if BOT's or Crawlers or any other non-humans can trigger the counter?
If so, is there any mod I can do to ensure that only human clicks are counted?
Thanks.

[Klemen]

Yes, bots do trigger the count. To prevent the good bots (those that obey standards) doing so block them from visiting click.php using robots.txt file:
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=robots.txt
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp& ... allow+file

Blocking others (non-standard compliant) would require coding in confirmation pages where people would have to type in a code (captcha) to visit a link - not recommended.

[MarkHoward]

Thanks Klemen
That will help a lot. I'll try that on Monday.

[DC]

Klem, couldn't you just check a session var is set as I found most bots pay no attention to sessions or cookies, thus they can't trigger the script if we check that ideas just my 2 cents ...

Its a small trick I use in my anti spam scripts.

DC

[Klemen]

The bot would have to go through 2 requests for this to work (the click.php would have to be accessed two times).