[users@httpd] Re: How to close connection instead of sending 403?

[Joost de Heer <sa...@xs4all.nl>]

dtufs said:
> We have been trying to cut down our bandwidth usage by
> disallowing access for many spammers and malevolent
> bots. We are currently doing it via .htaccess and
> respond with the "403 Forbidden" code.
>
> However, this still costs us some bandwidth. What we
> would like to do is close the connection without even
> responding to any bad's visitor request. Bad visitor
> is detected by examining the user agent and/or
> referrer, or requested URI (never by examining the IP
> address).

What you need is an IPS system.

Joost


---------------------------------------------------------------------
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@httpd.apache.org
   "   from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@httpd.apache.org
For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@httpd.apache.org