Why not simply use robots.txt, its is made for this, no ? On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 02:07, Caleb James DeLisle &lt;calebdelisle(a)lavabit.com <mailto:calebdelisle@lavabit.com>> wrote: I noticed xwiki.org <http://xwiki.org> lagging and java process using lots of cpu, although ram was high it didn't seem to be a major issue. I noticed this: 180.76.5.100 - - [07/Jan/2012 <tel:2012>:21:13:00 +0100] "GET /xwiki/monitoring?part=graph&graph=sql34bb8b9d9f525e0790dab487491d120d4bc685cd&period=annee HTTP/1.1" 500 398 <tel:500%20398> "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Baiduspider/2.0; +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)" And seeing as it seems you can do things like heap dump and run garbage collector with get requests, that page should probably be made difficult to access. One idea that comes to mind would be using mod_rewrite to change the url if there is no auth cookie set so any logged in user can view it but a roving bot can't. Caleb _______________________________________________ infra mailing list infra(a)xwiki.org <mailto:infra@xwiki.org> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/infra -- Denis Gervalle SOFTEC sa - CEO eGuilde sarl - CTO _______________________________________________ infra mailing list infra(a)xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/infra