Thank you for the quick response; that did the trick. I tend to be blind sometimes when a problem thwarts me for awhile, just need another set of eyes :) -----Original Message----- From: jslive@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:jslive@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joshua Slive Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 3:22 PM To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Blocking Requests Based Off of HTTP Headers On 2/8/07, Adam Serediuk <aserediuk@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > RewriteCond ${hosts-deny:%{true-client-ip}|NOT-FOUND} > !=NOT-FOUND > > RewriteRule ^/.* - [F] > If the REMOTE_HOST or REMOTE_ADDR matches the contents of the hosts.deny > file, the block works. However, if I set an HTTP header for true-client-ip > it does not match. I've tried a number of combinations and cannot get this > to work as expected. I know that the true-client-ip header exists, as I am > using it to log information into a log file successfully. You would need to use %{HTTP:true-client-ip}, as noted in the RewriteCond docs. Joshua. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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