|  | Posted by Shooter on 12/11/06 00:09 
The PHP Referer worked, once I got the full URL in as the referer page rather than the domain name. THANK YOU!!
 
 Wm
 
 
 "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> wrote in message
 news:4tves0F161pgvU1@mid.individual.net...
 > Shooter wrote:
 >> I'm trying to find a way to block a bandwidth thief who is sending a TON
 >> of hits to one page on one of my sites. Thus far nothing I've tried has
 >> worked - the .htaccess files totally block everyone from the page, rather
 >> than just the specific referring website. Running Linux with PSA. Can
 >> anyone suggest a method that will actually work?
 >
 >
 > if you need to block a ip-number, iptable rules may be useful:
 > iptable -A INPUT -s x.y.z.w -d 0/0 -j DROP
 >
 >
 > PHP method to redirect the user back to the page, add this in the top:
 > if ($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']=="the referer page") {
 > header("Location: {$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']}");
 > }
 >
 >
 >
 > Apache rules (not tested), we redirect them back:
 > RewriteMap  deflector txt:/path/to/deflector.map
 > RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !=""
 > RewriteCond ${deflector:%{HTTP_REFERER}} ^-$
 > RewriteRule ^.* %{HTTP_REFERER} [R,L]
 > RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !=""
 > RewriteCond ${deflector:%{HTTP_REFERER}|NOT-FOUND} !=NOT-FOUND
 > RewriteRule ^.* ${deflector:%{HTTP_REFERER}} [R,L]
 >
 >
 > --- deflector.map ---
 > ## from_page redirect_to_page
 > ## redirect_to_page = '-', then error page from you
 > http://www.badguys.com/bad/index.html    www.badguys.com/bad/stupid1.html
 > http://www.badguys.com/bad/index2.html   www.badguys.com/bad/stupid2.html
 > http://www.badguys.com/bad/index3.html   www.badguys.com/bad/stupid3.html
 > http://www.badguys2.com/bad/index.html   -
 > --- eof ---
 >
 >
 > The fun with redirecting people back to the original site is that it
 > generates a quite a lot of extra logs and users may send them angry
 > feedbacks about broken links.
 >
 >
 >  Have fun...
 >
 >
 >
 >   //Aho
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