We have been trying to cut down our bandwidth usage by disallowing access for many spammers and malevolent bots. We are currently doing it via .htaccess and respond with the "403 Forbidden" code. However, this still costs us some bandwidth. What we would like to do is close the connection without even responding to any bad's visitor request. Bad visitor is detected by examining the user agent and/or referrer, or requested URI (never by examining the IP address). Is this possible to do on Apache (running on Red Hat)? Thanks in advance. __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour: http://tour.mail.yahoo.com/mailtour.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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