Restrict crawlers

[pdunton]

I am offering free pdf manuscripts for my customers via the Squirrelcart Download module.
Some of these documents are quite large.

I am seeing LOTS of downloads that appear to be crawlers like Googlebot that are downloading the docs "Not Logged In."

This is using a lot of bandwidth. I have searched for a setting or Rule I can use to block downloads "Not Logged In" but haven't found one that I recognize.

Is there something I can do besides blocking the crawlers at the OS level? I obviously don't want to block Google completely (or any other indexing service for that matter.)

[Jamie]

You can control when a download is available via rulesets, at either the Download Section or Download record level. The easiest way is to add a rule of type "Customer" to the download section that checks to make sure the username isn't blank.
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[pdunton]

Thanks Jamie.
I see I really need to spend some quality time with the Rules Sets.

Logged 64 "Not Logged In" downloads, not good.

Should stop now.