Re: [cobalt-users] securing your website

[Dom Latter <qube@xxxxxxx>]

spamcatcher wrote:
> 
> Try blocking access based on the name of the browsers. Some popular
> rippers I've noticed in the logs are "SiteSnagger", "WebStripper", and
> "MSIECrawler." The browser will get a nice "access denied" message from
> Apache when they try to hit your site. You can also add a customer script
> to handle the error and explain to them why they can't access your site.
> Or you can be evil and just sit back and enjoy the show as the loser
> access your server with a regular browser, then with the ripper, then the
> regular browser, then the ripper and try to figure out why their browser
> works but not the ripper.

Cunning.  Wouldn't stop *me* though.