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How to Block Unwanted Bots from Your Website with.htaccess

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This article is a practical guide designed to help webmasters who already know what they want to block. As I mentioned toone user who asked me for help, trying to block all undesirable bots from your site is like trying to rid the world of pests.Swat one, and another few will take its place. Should I Use PHP or HTML for My Website?

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

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That means, the Web server has to deal with the same load as with a GET request , it just deletes the content portion (the compelety formatted HTML page) when responding, after counting its size to send the Content-Length response header. But: the script invoked gets completely processed, just the output is trashed.