By blueblade on

Hi,

I have a few search forms generated by Views module and I want to allow all users to be able to use the forms. Can someone can send a 'machine' and generate tons of random searches and bring my site down if I have the forms open to anonymous users? If that's possible, how do we prevent that?

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vm commented

spammed? unless the forms are sent to someone email. no.

Maybe you mean hammered? and in tha case maybe the badbehavior.module would help.

Any file in drupal.org can be called thousands of times and someone try to bring your site down. This would hold true even if the site was using static pages. I believe it may be called a Denial of Service attach aka, Dos.

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blueblade commented

Hi VM,

I dont know what it's called but I dont want to abuse the search forms. I think what I need is something like that can help make sure that the request is by a real human user when using search forms, much like what CAPTCHA does for user registration. Do you know if badbehavior.module does that?

Thanks again.

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vm commented

http://drupal.org/project/badbehavior