[nycbug-talk] apache - blocking by referrer

[Dan Langille]

On 26 May 2005 at 13:16, Kevin Reiter wrote:

> Dan Langille wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> > 
> > Have you seen a solution for blocking incoming httpd requests based 
> > upon the referrer?  I'm getting lots of referrer spam from www.texas-
> > hold-em-world.com
> 
> I found an article that explains how to use mod_rewrite to do this:
> 
> http://urbanmainframe.com/folders/blog/20041115/

*insert sound of pleased chuckling*

205.208.226.61 - - [26/May/2005:10:47:59 -0700] "GET 
/bootfloppies.php HTTP/1.0" 403 291 "http://www.example.com/online-p
oker.html" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; KITV4.7 
Wanadoo)"

NOTE: actual domain changed because the spammer doesn't deserve any 
references from our mail archives.

Thanks.
-- 
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