How can I block abusive bots from accessing my Heroku app?
- by aem
My Heroku (Bamboo) app has been getting a bunch of hits from a scraper identifying itself as GSLFBot. Googling for that name produces various results of people who've concluded that it doesn't respect robots.txt (eg, http://www.0sw.com/archives/96).
I'm considering updating my app to have a list of banned user-agents, and serving all requests from…