Comments on: Blocking Java suckers

By: George

George — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 17:45:58 +0000

Let me try that again. Inside [quote] and [/quote] it should have said:

order allow,deny
allow from all
deny from env=ban
deny from env=spambot

By: George

George — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 17:43:11 +0000

I added

SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent Java/1.4. spambot=yes
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent Java/1.5. spambot=yes

and
[quote]

order allow,deny
allow from all
deny from env=spambot

[/quote]

to my .htaccess file in November, and then wondered why I was getting client denied by server configuration: /home/xxxxxx/public_html/modules/frozen_bubble/frozenBubble.jar type errors every time someone tried to use the applet.

So I removed (actually, commented out, those lines from my .htaccess file, and now all is well. What did I do wrong?

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By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 22:24:49 +0000

Ha-ha! Actually, I wrote that about my blog. :o) So far there have been no more visits from Java programs. I didn’t know how else to put it in the .htaccess file, so I made it part of a Limit argument, and following that I had the allow,deny setting. Should I add good Java bots along with allow all? For instance:

allow from all
allow from TulipChain/6.03
deny from env=spambot

By: admin

admin — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 21:52:45 +0000

Yikes Jonathan!
Your stumbleupon page gets some traffic, huh?

Umm, the htaccess tricks won’t even work on all servers. I haven only come up with a solution to block each type of bot. If you come up with something better, feel free to contribute!

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 21:15:19 +0000

First off, thank you. This is much easier than typing in each offender’s IP. Have you come up with a solution to allow good bots? What if your trick were part of an allow,deny rule?

By: Administrator

Administrator — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 22:09:44 +0000

Oops, missed a question.

No, it’s not part of mod_rewrite. It’s part of mod_setenvif

It can also be done with browser match and a few others.

By: Administrator

Administrator — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 11:30:08 +0000

Nah, I’ve got a comment feed. That should be enough for now.

By: DianeV

DianeV — Fri, 25 Mar 2005 11:01:56 +0000

Ann Elizabeth, does that go in the mod_rewrite rules?

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