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December 31, 2005

Project Honeypot

Having reinstalled MT on hounddog32.com and had a few problems with the Project Honeypot plugin, I've been playing around with it again. The error I got on installing the plugin comes when I try to look at the plugin config page:
An error occurred: Can't locate projecthoneypot/admin.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
/home/hounddog/public_html/mt-static/extlib
/home/hounddog/public_html/mt-static/plugins
/home/hounddog/public_html/mt-static/lib
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.3/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.3
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.2/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.2
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.3/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.2/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.1/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.3
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.2
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.1
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl .) at
/home/hounddog/public_html/mt-static/mt-projecthoneypot.cgi line 35.

If I get a resolution I'll put an update on here.

I've also been re-implimenting it on bigqns.com, where I first tried it out. I dug out my old code for a link rotator and thought it was worth sharing, should anyone else be looking to put in random link styles for project honeypot in a template setting. I guess that this could be made into a module for website baker, the CMS that I use, but I hard-coded it into the template I've made.

$honey_pot_link = array(0=>"<a href=\"http://www.bigqns.com/[honeypot].php\"><!-- county --></a>",
"<a href=\"http://www.bigqns.com/[honeypot].php\"><img src=\"county.gif\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" border=\"0\"></a>",
"<a href=\"http://www.bigqns.com/[honeypot].php\" style=\"display: none;\">county</a>",
"<div style=\"display: none;\"><a href=\"http://www.bigqns.com/[honeypot].php\">county</a></div>",
"<a href=\"http://www.bigqns.com/[honeypot].php\"></a>",
"<!-- <a href=\"http://www.bigqns.com/[honeypot].php\">county</a> -->",
"<div style=\"position: absolute; top: -250px; left: -250px;\"><a href=\"http://www.bigqns.com/[honeypot].php\">county</a></div>",
"<a href=\"http://www.bigqns.com/[honeypot].php\"><span style=\"display: none;\">county</span></a>",
"<a href=\"http://www.bigqns.com/[honeypot].php\"><div style=\"height: 0px; width: 0px;\"></div></a>");
$array_size = count($honey_pot_link);
$honey_pot = '<li>' . $honey_pot_link[rand(0, $array_size)] . '</li>';

I've replaced the name of the script I'm using with [honeypot] so as not to spoil the surprise for the bots crawling it! I just took the list of suggested links from the installation page on project honeypot, put them in an array and each time, pick a random one and put it in a list tag. That tag can then be put into the menu - For me, the last link on the list. It's invisible, as project honeypot tell you and different every time a bot looks.

If you find this helpful, do please let me know!

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