Just wondering...

I have a modified login.js file (in my mods subdir, of course). If I add a couple lines near the beginning to automatically hang up on "DUMB" terminals, would I be potentially be denying access to human callers? Or is it safe to assume that all incoming DUMB terminals are bots?

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Re: Reject DUMB clients?
By: Codefenix to All on Thu Oct 01 2020 12:20 pm

Just wondering...

I have a modified login.js file (in my mods subdir, of course). If I add a couple lines near the beginning to automatically hang up on "DUMB" terminals, would I be potentially be denying access to human callers? Or is it safe to assume that all incoming DUMB terminals are bots?

It's not a terrible idea (likely 99% of dumb terminals are bots). Another idea would be to just set the [login] inactive_hangup value in your ctrl/modopts.ini to just a really small value (10 seconds?). At least then, a human with a bad terminal would have a hope in hell of logging in.

digital man

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Re: Reject DUMB clients?
By: Codefenix to All on Thu Oct 01 2020 12:20 pm

Just wondering...

I have a modified login.js file (in my mods subdir, of course). If I add a couple lines near the beginning to automatically hang up on "DUMB" terminals, would I be potentially be denying access to human callers? Or is it safe to assume that all incoming DUMB terminals are bots?

It's not a terrible idea (likely 99% of dumb terminals are bots). Another idea would be to just set the [login] inactive_hangup value in your ctrl/modopts.ini to just a really small value (10 seconds?). At least then, a human with a bad terminal would have a hope in hell of logging in.

digital man

... and really slow keyboarders like me might get hung_up on :-P

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Re: Re: Reject DUMB clients?
By: Mortifis to Digital Man on Thu Oct 01 2020 09:37 pm

It's not a terrible idea (likely 99% of dumb terminals are bots). Another idea would be to just set the [login] inactive_hangup value in your ctrl/modopts.ini to just a really small value (10 seconds?). At least then, a human with a bad terminal would have a hope in hell of logging in.

... and really slow keyboarders like me might get hung_up on :-P

You'd have to t y p e e x t r e m e l y s l o w t o e x c e e d a 1 0 s e c o n d t i m e o ut b e t w e e n c h a r a c t e r s. :-)


digital man

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Re: Re: Reject DUMB clients?
By: Mortifis to Digital Man on Thu Oct 01 2020 09:37 pm

Another idea would be to just set the [login] inactive_hangup value in your ctrl/modopts.ini to just a really small value (10 seconds?). At least then, a human with a bad terminal would have a hope in hell of logging in.

... and really slow keyboarders like me might get hung_up on :-P

You'd have to t y p e e x t r e m e l y s l o w t o e x c e e d a 1 0 s e c o n d t i m e o ut b e t w e e n c h a r a c t e r s. :-)

digital man

heh, I have been know to fall asleep at the login prompt ... but never at the wheel

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