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malrock1
Hangin' Around
Joined: Nov 04, 2006
Posts: 46
Location: Wanaka New Zealand
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Sun Oct 14, 2007 5:56 pm |
 
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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:
Get String:
Post String:
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 |
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evaders99
Moderator
Joined: Apr 30, 2004
Posts: 2853
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Sun Oct 14, 2007 7:12 pm |
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RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Wget
RewriteRule ^.*$ http://127.0.0.1/ [R,L]
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malrock1
Hangin' Around
Joined: Nov 04, 2006
Posts: 46
Location: Wanaka New Zealand
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Sun Oct 14, 2007 7:21 pm |
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Cheers for that - I assume I am poting that into my HTaccess file? |
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malrock1
Hangin' Around
Joined: Nov 04, 2006
Posts: 46
Location: Wanaka New Zealand
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Sun Oct 14, 2007 7:55 pm |
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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 .... |
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Gremmie
Former Moderator in Good Standing
Joined: Apr 06, 2006
Posts: 2401
Location: Iowa, USA
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Sun Oct 14, 2007 9:04 pm |
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Do you have a
RewriteEngine on
in your .htaccess?
Some hosts don't let you use .htaccess or certain features also. |
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malrock1
Hangin' Around
Joined: Nov 04, 2006
Posts: 46
Location: Wanaka New Zealand
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Sun Oct 14, 2007 9:32 pm |
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ahh 
that would help - I've put that in now at the start of the .htaccess file - hopefully should work now ... |
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Gremmie
Former Moderator in Good Standing
Joined: Apr 06, 2006
Posts: 2401
Location: Iowa, USA
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Mon Oct 15, 2007 7:48 am |
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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. |
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malrock1
Hangin' Around
Joined: Nov 04, 2006
Posts: 46
Location: Wanaka New Zealand
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Mon Oct 15, 2007 12:31 pm |
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that worked! No more Wget abuse. |
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montego
Site Admin
Joined: Aug 29, 2004
Posts: 7487
Location: Arizona
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Tue Oct 16, 2007 5:18 am |
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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. |
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