Re: [Pound Mailing List] Blocking spambots

Todd Fleisher <todd-IiXteaC/[email protected]> Tue, 1 Mar 2016 11:51:48 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.pound.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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
> 
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