Re: [Pound Mailing List] Blocking spambots
Todd Fleisher <todd-IiXteaC/[email protected]> Tue, 1 Mar 2016 11:51:48 -0800
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It’d be easy to test the behavior you get by sending a request through with the UserAgent you are denying and seeing what response you get. -T On Mar 1, 2016, at 11:31 AM, Mike Slinn <[email protected]> wrote: > Jan, > > That worked! Good catch. > > Presumably a blocked request results in status 503? I configured Pound with status 503 and status 500 pages, for when the web server is restarting. I wonder if I actually want the 503 status page. The less information provided to bad guys, the better. > > No idea about pound's regex capability. Looking at the source code would probably be helpful, but I don't have time to do that right now. > > Right now I'm going to pore through the web logs looking for more bots to block. > > Mike > > -- > To unsubscribe send an email with subject unsubscribe to [email protected] > Please contact [email protected] for questions.
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