dtufs said: > We have been trying to cut down our bandwidth usage by > disallowing access for many spammers and malevolent > bots. We are currently doing it via .htaccess and > respond with the "403 Forbidden" code. > > However, this still costs us some bandwidth. What we > would like to do is close the connection without even > responding to any bad's visitor request. Bad visitor > is detected by examining the user agent and/or > referrer, or requested URI (never by examining the IP > address).
What you need is an IPS system. Joost --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
