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
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> 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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