Apache Server configuration support - Re: banning this browser: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows

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Re: banning this browser: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows

Jim Hayter

2007-05-21, 1:20 pm

shimmyshack wrote:
> On May 17, 5:06 pm, "no.rep...@comcast.net" <no.rep...@comcast.net>
> wrote:

<snip>
> sources? do you mean referers?
> If so you are probably being log spammed. If you logs are public, the
> referers are logged and your logs indexed by google, which increases
> the ranking for these sites.
> Implement a simple login/basic auth protection for your logs and they
> will get bored.

I'm not seeing much evidence that they get bored. My logs have never
been public, but I see log spam on a regular basis. One of the joys of
running an internet facing web server.

Jim