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Ugly looking User-agent

         

Bluestreak

5:35 am on Dec 10, 2002 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Look at this ridiculous user-agent:

66.28.23.147 - - [08/Dec/2002:01:59:00 -0500] "GET HTTP/1.0" 200 31109 "-" "Lynx/2.8.4rel.1 libwww-FM/2.14 SSL-MM/1.4.1 OpenSSL/0.9.6c human-guided@lerly.net"

I dont like the way this spider has been acting on my site at ALL, but Im not sure how to write in the user agent on my banlist. I use htaccess and block by user agent, but this one stumps me. Any suggestions on the appropriate syntax I can use to keep this little devil out?

Key_Master

5:50 am on Dec 10, 2002 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



That agent triggered a spider trap on one of my sites. Definately one for the ban list.

I use this in my .htaccess file:

SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent human-guided\@lerly\.net ban

Key_Master

5:53 am on Dec 10, 2002 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



Meet the man behind the agent:

[mit.edu...]

upside

5:55 am on Dec 10, 2002 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



I beleive that is Metacarta. They hit my spider trap too.

GeorgeGG

5:58 am on Dec 10, 2002 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



No help on blocking, but
[66.28.23.147...] == MetaCarta Search
MetaCarta Geographic Text Search
Just click 'Cancel' at the User Name/Password box.
Appears to be a test page?

Also the home page = www.metacarta.com

GeorgeGG

Bluestreak

6:16 am on Dec 10, 2002 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Long time no see Key, Thanks for the info, tested it and should keep the bugger out :D