idiotgirl - 3:24 pm on Oct 24, 2001 (gmt 0)

toolman- have you been looking over my shoulder at 2 am? I thought *I* had some kind of unhealthy fixation with .htaccess. Guess not. And it may even be healthy, after all.

I've been going back and forth from a kind of banbot.cgi that reads a banned.txt file, to just drawing a line in the sand and doing the full-on mod_rewrite at the top level to initiate a trickle down effect on the sub domains I host.

What I've been toying with is a combination of my banned.txt file automatically updating my .htaccess file - using grep to insert/add/delete lines depending on what is in banned.txt. It's pretty easy to update my banned.txt file either by hand or with a little interface program I wrote - but I'm 'grappling with grep' to insert my lines in the correct place in the .htaccess file. I'm in the dark with grep. Grep vexes me. Grep makes my stomach hurt.

Has anyone else considered this, or is it too much work? I thought it would give me some flexibility, and kill two birds with one stone. In fact, at 2 am I think it's a brilliant idea. Then again, I don't get out much.