How to safely ban a UA containing commonality?

RewriteRule in .htaccess

[keyplyr]

Someone using Netscape/PICgrabber hits once a week, requesting just a few files. It does not obey robots.txt so I'd like to ban it. Obviously I don't wish to ban other UA's named Netscape, so can I just leave off the anchor?

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} PICgrabber [NC,OR]

Thanks

[keyplyr]

anyone?

[hakre]

this should do the job with ease:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} =Netscape/PICgrabber [NC,OR]

this will only block the specific one, other netscape can.

-hakre

[keyplyr]

Thanks,

What does the = do?

[jdMorgan]

keyplyr,

The code you posted in msg#1 should work fine.

Jim