Banning anonymous bot

I found a solution for using .htaccess to block empty user_agents. Can I do this without causing other problems?

Can you show the code you used?

tim

RewriteEngine on
# BEGIN block access for empty user agents – 403 error
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ – [F,L]
# END block access for empty user agents

I found it here: https://ac2a.com/how-to-block-access-empty-blank-user-agent/

I think we already have this feature on the bottom of our options page (Other Options section)
Block IP’s who send POST requests with blank User-Agent and Referer

tim

I am already using that option, but the bot still got through. I added in the rewrite rule to my htaccess file and the hits disappeared!