> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Montag, 20. Juni 2005 14:52
> To: users@httpd.apache.org
> Subject: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] How to close connection instead of sending
> 403?
> 
> 
> Mr Boyle,
> 
> I don't think your replies are very helpful.

Depends what you mean by "helpful" - I didn't tell the guy how to do what he 
wants to do, but that's because he wants to do something impossible. If it 
stops him from wasting his time on a wild goose chase, then maybe it was 
helpful.

> If you care to step outside your ivory tower for a moment and take a 
> stroll around the real world you'll find that there's rules 
> and idealism 
> and then there's practicality and pragmatism.

Er - I am a web admin on a busy commercial site. We too are plagued by bots who 
ignore robots.txt and make repeated requests to dynamic pages. It's a constant 
struggle to keep ahead of them. We use a variety of strategies (honeytraps, 
user agent, cookies, behavioural heuristics). If you want to broaden the 
discussion to swap ideas, that's fine but I have to go now - I have to 
calculate how many angels you can get on the head of a pin...

Rgds,
Owen Boyle
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> 
> Rich.
> 
> > 
> > --- Boyle Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>The RFC specifically
> >>requires the server to respond to valid requests
> >>with a response message (which may be 403
> >>Forbidden). Unfortunately, there's nothing in the
> >>RFC that allows for "closing a connection".
> > 
> 
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