Kwaad wrote:Cheena wrote:Dude I don't wanna sound bothering but... I know 100% sure that someone else than me downloading your tiles. At least 2 other people. One of them told me that you had no mean to find out we were downloading your tiles (he's the one who wrote the script for me). So I'm actually starting to think he was right, and that you caught some noob running a noob script, or some ass who wrote it so you catch him, voluntarily.
Technical post incoming. It's impossible to actually do any interaction with the server without it leaving a trace in the Nginx acces.log or error.log. Whenever a request is made to the server to download a file (a page or file) the actual request comes with various information. One being the HTTP referer (the page the request originated from). The script you (assuming your from or near Paris) used lacked the correct HTTP referer and was therefor easy to identify. Before going to bed yesterday I checked the logs again and noticed two suspicious ip's popping up. If I'm not mistaken one of those IP's traced back to Scandinavia.
Here is what I don't understand, why they would even go trough all that trouble? Just send me a simple PM requesting the tiles. Saves me time, saves them time.
I don't think it makes any sense to monitor this. If someone wants they can just write a script sending HTTP GET requests for the files. From your side it would totally look like a browser displaying images.
It seems that the whole situation is bothering you, and has already led to disabling the map for a few days. So there, here's your answer - they may be going through the trouble to harass you. To annoy you and to put the project down.
Or maybe they don't speak english and can't even communicate with you and read this thread.
No sense putting too much thought into this.
