Condensing RewriteCond

[keyplyr]

This...

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} MS.*Office [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} MSOffice [NC]
RewriteRule!^forbidden\.html$ - [F]

Did not stop this...

165.21.XX.XX - - [06/Jan/2004:08:40:43 -0800] "OPTIONS / HTTP/1.1" 200 - "-" "Microsoft Office Protocol Discovery"

So I'm adding this...

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Microsoft\ Office [NC,OR] 

Surely this can be condensed? Thanks.

[jdMorgan]

keyplyr,

There's no need to redirect Options requests -- your server doesn't support any, as evidenced by the zero-length response. Redirecting or returning an error response will only cost you bandwidth and provide no gain.

Also, the second RewriteCond in your code snippet is redundant, since the pattern "MS.*Office" will match the user-agent "MSOffice" (because ".*" means "any number of characters, including zero").

Jim