Jakarta Commons-HttpClient/2.0rc2

Anyone banning it?

[guitaristinus]

"Jakarta Commons-HttpClient/2.0rc2" increased bandwidth by about 100meg yesterday. It was immediately followed by "Java/1.4.2_04". Both coming from 65.222.140.50.

Their site is at [jakarta.apache.org...]

Is this the way to add it to my .htaccess file?

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Jakarta Commons-HttpClient/2.0rc2 [NC,OR]

Thanks.

[jdMorgan]

It's just a library of HTTP functions, like Indy Library. It can be used for good or bad.

This was probably someone who used it to write a robot, and did not change the default user-agent string.

However, there is no reason you'd want to block *only* version 2.0, release candidate 2, so leave that off.

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Jakarta\ Commons-HttpClient/ [NC,OR]

(Also escape the space after "Jakarta" as shown)

Jim