Hi,
There is a known quirk where search robots somehow manage to create carts!...it could be the effect of this you're seeing.
The scheduler will normally clean up those carts, so the only effect is a jump in the size of the cart table and the identity id. The order number jumping by 1000 could be linked to this, although the order number doesn't get generated until the order has gone to cart....maybe the robots are now following the order button. But again the scheduler should clean this up.
As for it being an attack, I suppose this is possible, but I can't think what they would be attacking by creating orders, unless it's a DoS attack, but 1000 records for that would seem far too little to have an effect, so I would tend to think it's a robots causing it. Maybe we could try putting something in the new templates to stop robots following postback buttons.....but my thought was that they shouldn't anyway!!
Keep an eye on it and see if it's happening regularly.
Dave.
There is a known quirk where search robots somehow manage to create carts!...it could be the effect of this you're seeing.
The scheduler will normally clean up those carts, so the only effect is a jump in the size of the cart table and the identity id. The order number jumping by 1000 could be linked to this, although the order number doesn't get generated until the order has gone to cart....maybe the robots are now following the order button. But again the scheduler should clean this up.
As for it being an attack, I suppose this is possible, but I can't think what they would be attacking by creating orders, unless it's a DoS attack, but 1000 records for that would seem far too little to have an effect, so I would tend to think it's a robots causing it. Maybe we could try putting something in the new templates to stop robots following postback buttons.....but my thought was that they shouldn't anyway!!
Keep an eye on it and see if it's happening regularly.
Dave.