[thelist] Redirect user agent to warning page

[John C Bullas]

At 11:44 16/11/2003, you wrote
>Hi,
>
>What you are trying to do will not work because almost all downloaders can 
>change their identity very easily. If you want to go ahead with it anyway 
>you might want to refer to the Apache Url Rewriting guide which has a 
>couple of example that deals with serving different responses to different 
>browsers.
>
>A better approach might be for you to indentify this particular users ip 
>or network and block access to that ip. This can also be done with url 
>rewrites.

Of course!!!!! I already use:

<Limit GET>
order allow,deny
allow from all
deny from 12.xx.xxx.62 #www.lalalalalal.com
</Limit>

to block access on one site and deliver a custom 401 error page thanks

John


>If you are lucky the downloader reffered to might be well written and 
>might actually obey the robots.txt file. If it does this might be the 
>simplest approach.