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Message # 18818.2.1.1 Subject: Re: HTTP banning Date: Wed 19/10/05 06:34:07 GMT Name: Engine Ears |
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A more effective banning strategy than just the IP address, is also to filter the HTTP headers (which is what I do on my WAM site to eliminate hackers), for example:
[1] 'GET /index.htm HTTP/1.1' [2] 'Accept: */*' [3] 'Referer: http://forum.minxmovies.com/add.asp?18818.2.1' [4] 'Accept-Language: en' [5] 'Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate' [6] 'User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SomeDaftGiveawayStringThatIdentifiesMyBrowser)' [7] 'Host: forum.minxmovies.com' [8] 'Connection: Keep-Alive' [9] ''
Particularly the User-Agent and Referer fields, which identify what browser you're using and the web page you came here from. ('Authenticate' is also useful, if you want a members-only website.)
You can then ban the POST (and all but the GET method), so unwanted users can only read (GET) and not add new POSTs :-) |
In reply to Message (18818.2.1) Re: Re: To Nigel
By Desert Hawk - Wed 19/10/05 00:00:59 GMT Banning by IP or city can lock out legitimate users. Dragon's Lair Project has problems with one user named leslie Collins who lives in Las Vegas. For several years, the entire city of Lqas Vegas was locked out of that site, and I couldn't get on while on vacation there. Now just Cox high speed from Las Vegas is banned, but a few other potential posters are locked out still, just to keep one man off. |
In reply to Message (18818.2) Re: To Nigel
By WetCasual - wetcasual@yahoo.com Tue 18/10/05 16:25:50 GMT Website: h Do you really think such a request will be honoured when you use the term "dickhead"? |
In reply to Message (18818) To Nigel
By James - richardhead82001@yahoo.co.uk Tue 18/10/05 14:12:42 GMT This forum is great, I've been visiting a while now A question, can you ban all the dickheads IP addresses who don't appreciate, sure theres something people don't like, but should keep opinions to themselves
This forum is far better than the styx one as more variety
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