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[nycphp-talk] Urgent: Help in Defending Attack

Randal Rust randalrust at gmail.com
Thu Feb 28 11:29:21 EST 2008


On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Michael Sims <jellicle at gmail.com> wrote:

>  You know, all modern browsers - for the last ten years - use http/1.1 rather
>  than 1.0.  So you can probably just discard all http/1.0 requests as being
>  clearly the work of machines rather than humans.

ok. but how will that affect google or other SEs trying to crawl the site?

>  Also, if you're running a niche site which it appears you are, feel free to
>  ban areas of the world that annoy you.

yeah, i'm considering that.

>  You should solve this problem at the server or Apache level (or higher), not
>  at the PHP level.

that's what the ultimate goal would be. i was trying to put a quick
fix in place.

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Randal Rust
R.Squared Communications
www.r2communications.com



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