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Jason_64846
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Aug 16, 2012

Enabling ASM for media content servers

Currently we have a group of servers that are all load balanced thru LTM that are responsible for serving up all the images to a number of our websites. All the images resolve on their own separat...
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JamesS_40157
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Aug 21, 2012
Hi Jason,

 

 

I am by no means an ASM expert but I don't believe web scraping functionality would work here - i believe it relies on HTML pages to insert JS challenges and obviously won't be able to insert this into image content.

 

 

To protect scraping of content the way I see it is to have your content numbered randomly with no predictable syntax, and protect the pages that serve the content with the web scraping technology. Obviously that could require quite a bit of dev time and infrastructure changes internally!