SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

How to Identify the Bot You Want to Block Before you can block a bot, you will need to know at least one of two things: the IP address where the bot is coming from or the"User Agent string" that the bot is using. Once youve located the entries that belong to the bot, look for the IP address and the user agent string. Be careful though.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

For example when you operate a WordPress blog, you could code nearly everthing below in your 404 page (consider alternatives ). requestHandler.php [L] Please note that the code above kinda disables the Web server’s error handling. from the IP address range 65.52.0.0 You need to take care of errors yourself.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

Those crappy bots not only cost you money because they keep your server busy and increase your bandwidth bill, they actively decrease your advertising revenue because your visitors hit the back button when your page isn’t responsive due to the heavy bot traffic. It can get worse when a URI gets retweeted often. compatible; …&#.

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