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<p><span style="font-family:monospace"><span
style="color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;">I am trying to
weed out requests for any uri that contains the string,
"announce" (no quotes). That would include</span></span></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family:monospace"><span
style="color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;">/announce</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family:monospace"><span
style="color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;">/announce/</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family:monospace"><span
style="color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;">/announce.php</span></span></li>
</ul>
<p>each with or without query strings. I have the following location
blocks in my server context:<br>
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<span style="font-family:monospace"><span
style="color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;"> location
~* announce {
</span><br>
return 444;
<br>
}<br>
</span><br>
<span style="font-family:monospace"><span
style="font-family:monospace"><span
style="color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;">
location ~* /announce.php {
</span><br>
return 444;
<br>
}<br>
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</span></span>
<p>and my log looks good:<br>
</p>
<span style="font-family:monospace"><span
style="font-family:monospace"></span></span>
<p><span style="font-family:monospace"><span
style="color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;"><span
style="font-family:monospace"><span
style="color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;">"122.100.172.162"
"03/Aug/2022:20:19:00 -0400" "GET
/announce.php?info_hash=%DF%AEF%40%7F%1DA%C9%91S%9F%D4%0D%D6J%E6%992%A3~&peer_id=-BC0171-_sSI%D1n%AA%A9%C3%A5%25%1E&port=153</span>02&natmapped=1&localip=172.18.80.247&port_type=lan&uploaded=46317568&downloaded=11285925264&left=178446055&numwant=50&compact=1&no_peer_id=1&key=38892
HTTP/1.1" "444" "0" "0.000" "-"
"BitComet/1.71.9.7"<br>
</span></span></span></p>
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<p>until it doesn't:<br>
<span style="font-family:monospace"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:monospace">"81.110.165.170"
"03/Aug/2022:20:24:03 -0400" "GET
/announce.php?info_hash=%5B%EA0r%8A*8%C4%DAA%81%02%B4%BF%97%CC%1E%A9y%C8&am_peer_id=-TR300%5A-LDXTt3fAIyq%00&port=43342&uploaded=0&downloaded=0&left=5593535899&event=started&key=0&compact=1&numwant=200
HTTP/1.1" "400" "150" "0.000" "-" "-"<br>
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:monospace"><br>
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:monospace">I have tried various location
prefixes and regexes (and combinations thereof) but can't seem
to find the one that works correctly.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:monospace">Thanks for any help<br>
</span></p>
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