does whitelisting patterns / regex work ?

  • Resolved kerryoco

    (@kerryoco)


    4 years, 1 month ago

    Awesome simple plugin thanks, it’s blocking about 2000 bots a day for me.
    It looks like whitelist only works by exact match.
    Any chance you could code in a wildcard (*) operator?

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  • Plugin Author Oliver Campion

    (@domainsupport)

    This plugin is predominately used by clients of ours to protect their sites and our servers so regex isn’t something they would ever ask about but … having said that … the following whitelist examples are indeed supported …

    /example/([0-9a-z.\-]+).zip
/wp-content/plugins/example/([0-9a-z.\-]+).php
/example/(.*)

    It’s not a documented feature because it isn’t something that people would normally know about ??

    Hope that helps?

    Oliver

    PS – Glad to hear that someone else finds that this plugin works for them!

    Thread Starter kerryoco

    (@kerryoco)

    Awesome thanks!
    And yep, we had an “Anonymous Fox” attack recently, and even after cleaning the site, we’re still on their list of bot network “members” it seems, because I can see them once a second or more trying to talk to malware which no longer exists on the site. So this was a catch-all solve for it.

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