[thelist] Redirect user agent to warning page

Raditha Dissanayake jabber at raditha.com
Sun Nov 16 10:05:24 CST 2003


Awright, sorry for making too many assumptions.

John C Bullas wrote:

> 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.
>
>


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