Bad Bot blocking Revisited
- by Tom
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