Idiotbot

loop-de-loop

[RobBroekhuis]

Some low-IQ Asian bot hit my site today. Bogus referral, unproperly formatted useragent. But the worst thing is, it converts all urls to lowercase. Then it gets stuck in a loop, because it will get a 301 from my server with the properly capitalized url, which it promptly reconverts and re-requests. Hundreds of requests littering my logs, in a few different bot sessions. Bleh!
This just may be my first venture into excluding IPs - never felt the need before.
Rob

[fish_eye]

Are you trying to find out how to exclude?

If so, what sort of server are you running on?

[RobBroekhuis]

Fish-eye - thanks for the offer to help. I'm hosted on an Apache server, and have now put the deny from directive in place. Really, I was just venting, and seeing if anybody else had run into similar situations, more than asking for help :-)
Rob