Combining RewriteConds

[keyplyr]

Can these two strings..

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER}!^http://babel\.altavista\.com/.*www\.mydomain\.net
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER}!^http://babelfish\.altavista.com/.*www\.mydomain\.net

...be combined into this?

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER}!^http://babel.\.altavista\.com/.*www\.mydomain\.net

...or should it be writtenthis way?

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER}!^http://babel(fish)\.altavista\.com/.*www\.mydomain\.net

Thanks

[jdMorgan]

keyplyr,

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://babel(fish)?\.altavista\.com/.*www\.mydomain\.net

The "?" makes the preceding character or group (bounded by parentheses) optional.

Ref: [etext.lib.virginia.edu...]

Jim

[keyplyr]

Terrific, thanks Jim.

While we're on the subject (he he) have you ever seen AV's translator referral written as "babel"? Because all the referrers I see are "babelfish"

So unless both really do exist, I might just go with the second one anyway.

Thanks.

<added> works fine, might as well not try to fix it anymore ;)