404'ing based on referer

[roscoepico]

Has anyone had to do such a thing in the past? Looking for suggestions as to how to go about doing this. An example would be if a user finds my site via hotbot(referer contains hotbot), I would want to send them to a 404 page and if the referer contained google then i would send them to the regular page. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[andreasfriedrich]

You could use mod_perl and write such an access handler or you could use PHP and send a 404 response header or any other server side scripting language. Another possibility is using mod_rewrite.

Andreas