Bad Bot blocking Revisited

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Published on 2012-07-01T00:56:32Z Indexed on 2012/07/01 3:24 UTC
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I've read a lot about bad bot blocking, php scripts, .htaccess techniques, etc...

Is this a valid method?

Since .htacces can rewrite and send a bad bot a 403 deny or forward to something like spam poison, is it possible to Disallow a folder, then through .htaccess in that specific folder redirect to spampoison? Since Apache reads each .htaccess independently and follows specific instructions, then a bad bot not following robots.txt would just be redirected. Or anyone trying to access, /badbot/ or whatever I choose to call my trap folder.

Thanks Tom

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