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---- A Close to perfect .htaccess ban list


pmkpmk - 11:52 am on Nov 25, 2002 (gmt 0)


As mentioned above, thanks to Andreas Freidrich everything works fine now, and I "catch" typically 1-2 mail harvesters per day that way. I downloaded a few of those bugs myself to get a feeling how they work.

And now the $1.000.000 prize question is: what hinders a programmer of these bugs to "steal" the user-agent string of - say - IE5.0?

Am I right in thinking that a bot camouflaging itself as IE50 would be COMPLETELY invisible to .htaccess rewrite rules?


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