So, nothing special. But on the DB table lime_old_survey_123456_20220915062728 there was a row where id, startlanguage, seed, startdate and datestamp had values, all other colums were NULL. startdate was 2022-09-15 08:48:06, so clearly it is from the indexing robot. In my own testing I was not able to get similar rows to appear to the table when I tried to just open the link without doing nothing more.
So when this happens? Also, it is possible that somewhere the code uses query like COUNT(lastpage) FROM ..., which differs from SELECT(1) or SELECT(*) so that it does not count NULL values?
Afaik, whenever a survey is opened, Limesurvey will create a new line in the database. Ideally I would adapt the robots.txt to prevent robots to even crawl the site at all.
In my own testing I was not able to get similar rows to appear to the table when I tried to just open the link without doing nothing more.
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I answer at the LimeSurvey forum in my spare time, I'm not a LimeSurvey GmbH employee.
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Ah, that was the reason. I had seen this before, but forgot. And in this case it happened that a user here had tested Lime just about 30 seconds after robot visit.
