Stoping bots and wget in nginx

[Fabio Coatti]

Alle martedì 18 dicembre 2007, Alexis Torres Garnica ha scritto:
> Hi guys, I am new to the list. Is there a way to stop or block the bots
> access and wget to a nginx web server? tnks
>
> att: alex

If with "block bots" you mean "block requests based on User Agent", you can do 
this setting up something like this:

                if ($http_user_agent ~ libwww-perl ) {
                        return 400;
                }


(just an example, of course)


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