[Koha-bugs] [Bug 4042] Public OPAC search can fall prey to web crawlers

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http://bugs.koha.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=4042





--- Comment #8 from Rick Welykochy <rick at praxis.com.au>  2010-01-15 13:07:41 ---
> Correct me if I'm wrong - but this would remove the ability for librarians to
send their patrons links to queries that they think will help with their
research.

Not at all. It has been proposed that there is a system pref to disable this
behavior.

If the behaviour is enabled, all theuse has to do is hit the "Search" button
when they go to a search link. 


> IRC - wherever this discussion started to have a system preference to let the
library decide what they want to do.

Of course. This is necessary.


> Being able to send URLs to searches in email or putting them on a webpage is a big feature, not a bug.

Of course, this is a "bug" repository.

But it is much more as well. This fix proproses to *optionally* make new
behaviour available in Koha to prevent web crawlers from DOS-ing your system.

Never fear. This fix will be optional via System Prefs :)


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