How to Bounce Forbidden Requests

[carfac]

Hi:

We allknow the last line of the ReWrite list of banned IP's or Agents... basically, it returns a 403.

There are one or two sites I don't even want to send a 403 to...

is there a modification to:

RewriteRule ^/.* - [F,L]

That would just return nothing? Just ignore the request, not even bother replying? Play dead?

thanks!

dave

[Key_Master]

Send them to about:blank

[bird]

The "-" replacement just doesn't replace anything, the request is served normally. What I do is to just substitute an empty document. The about:blank trick only works for human operated browsers, rogue spiders will start looking for a document of that name on your site when they see such a redirect.

[Slade]

[localhost...]
?

[carfac]

Slade:

I THINK that worked....

I tried it on wannabrowser, and I got no response, but I think there was a header returned...

dave

[jdMorgan]

carfac,

I think I remember seeing a script (or a discussion of a script) here on WebmasterWorld that just did a "die" under certain conditions, causing the http session to time out. Unfortunately, I can't remember when it was, or the context of the discussion... Anybody else remember something like that?

Jim

[carfac]

Hi jdMorgan:

Thanks agin for your previous tutorial on Regular expressions- I learned a LOT!

Yeah, something like that would be wonderfull... especially if it put a big time load on THEM! The http://localhost looks like it still responds, but just with nothing. I was hoping to respond more like "no one is home, go away!" and not even answer the door... if you know what I mean...

dave