[COREblog-en] http:BL

[Sascha Welter]

Hello corebloggers!

A few days ago I've released a Zope product to give easy access to the
http:BL DNS blacklist from http://www.projecthoneypot.org. This works
perfectly with COREBlog (it was initially developed for COREBlog) and 
helps to reduce load from comment spammers and email scraping bots.

What it does is to look up visitors IP addresses by DNS against the http:BL
of projecthoneypot.org. If the visitor is a bot listed there, you can
block them with a 403 status code and a short message. In case of error,
visitors can temporarily whitelist themselves to get to view your blog.

You can find the code to download here:
http://betabug.ch/wiki/HoneyPotBL

Note that there *is* some setup needed and you have to get an access key
from Project Honeypot. It's all documented.

On another note, I've started to list all the changes I've made to the
code of my coreblog installation:
http://betabug.ch/wiki/CoreBlogChanges

Regards,

Sascha