blocking user agents?

registered · Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 5:56 pm

I have just started to get lots of abuse in the form of filter abuse - as an example

User Agent: Wget/1.1 (compatible; i486; Linux; RedHat7.3)
Query String: [ Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! ]
Get String: [ Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! ]
Post String: [ Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! ]
Forwarded For: none
Client IP: none
Remote Address: 65.95.98.45
Remote Port: 58775
Request Method: GET

How can I block the useragent Wget ??

cheers

Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 7:12 pm

Code:




RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Wget  


RewriteRule ^.*$ http://127.0.0.1/ [R,L]

Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 7:21 pm

Cheers for that - I assume I am poting that into my HTaccess file?

Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 7:55 pm

hmmm I put that into my htaccess file and I am still getting the same user agent - there are many many different IP address that it is being used from ....

Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 9:04 pm

Do you have a

RewriteEngine on

in your .htaccess?

Some hosts don't let you use .htaccess or certain features also.

Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 9:32 pm

ahh

that would help - I've put that in now at the start of the .htaccess file - hopefully should work now ...

Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 7:48 am

I'm just guessing about that. In all of the examples in the Apache docs, they have a RewriteEngine on statement. But it isn't clear to me if it is needed. Let us know if the behavior changes now with that on.

Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 12:31 pm

that worked! No more Wget abuse.

Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 5:18 am

Gremmie, I have seen sites where it was not needed and others where it was. That is definitely the very first thing I always ask folks to try... and is why I now include it up front in my shortlinks.htaccess file.