Our version of Weblink (8.2.2) (Laserfiche 10.2) is attracting bots (googlebot, etc.) that use up all your licenses, and users are prevented from accessing the system until the licenses time out or someone manually disconnects the session.    We spent years trying to block the bot IP addresses from IIS, which is a temporary workaround. The only thing that seems to work consistently is to put a userid and password on the Weblink entry screen (where we even tell you the actual userid and password). Not pretty, but it avoids the bot problem.

We got away with this for a few months, but now our users are complaining about the extra sign-in step.

I've read a few reports that maintain that attempts with Cookies turned off succeed in grabbing the licenses.   Why wouldn't LF write the code or give us the code that blocks all attempts to access Weblink without Cookies turned on?   Is it really that simple?

I've also read that Weblink Version 9 goes a long way to combating this problem.   Is it worth making the move to Weblink 9?

Thanks for any thoughts / advice.