On 05:48 pm, solipsis@pitrou.net wrote:
Hello,
The buildbots are sometimes subject to a flood of "svn exception" errors. It has been conjectured that these errors are caused by Web crawlers pressing "force build" buttons without filling any of the fields (of course, the fact that we get such ugly errors in the buildbot results, rather than a clean error message when pressing the button, is a buildbot bug in itself). Couldn't we simply exclude all crawlers from the buildbot Web pages?
Most (all?) legitimate crawlers won't submit forms. Do you think there's a non-form link to the force build URL (which _will_ accept a GET request to mean the same thing as a POST)? One thing I have noticed is that spammers find these forms and submit them with garbage. We can probably suppose that such people are going to ignore a robots.txt file. Jean-Paul