You're right, my bad
If the guy (you're blocking) always uses the same browser, maybe use a
expr that's very explicit.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} '^Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01;
MSNIA; Windows 98)$'
Or
You can replace text with .*?
. Is any character
* is zero or more matches
? match up to the first occurance (non-greedy matches).
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} '^Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE .*?;
MSNIA; Windows .*?)$'
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Jackson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 11:41 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] How to deny access based on user agent - help
> RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} '^Mozilla'
> RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://www.blah.com/ [L,R]
That would also block most legitimate traffic as well - most browsers
report that they're a variant of Mozilla. Better to match on something
more unique to that user agent, like
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} MSNIA
or
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} 'Windows 98'
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