Hi, Recently I found that there's a robot target (tailer made!) to my photo gallery website. It try to bulk download images from my website in rapid rate, and with "Microsoft URL control" as agent name. It even open for public download, encourage people using the software to download images from my website. That's fine, I've blocked requests with "Microsoft URL control" agent header to block it access to my web server. However, today I found that the bad robot maker modified the software, and use something like "Mozilla/4.0 ...." as agent header. Now I have no way to idenitify the robot using the agent string. I found mod_limitipconn may solve my problem, however, it would block real user access too for my situation. Since request from that (at most) robots does not have a "referer" header string, I want to modify mod_limitipconn so that : for (any_visiting_IP) { if ( referer == "not exist" and request_file_size > 10KB){ ip_download_count ++; if (ip_download_count > 10){ block_the_badip_and response_403 } } } However ... I'm not good in apache module API and C++ ....... Anyone can help? Jeff --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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