How to block by user agent?!

[Jim Ohlstein]

Robert Gabriel wrote:
> Im using nginx 0.7.60 for my blog, but I get a lot of weird requests
> from some users agent "Zulu_1.0". I wanna block it. How could this be
> done in nginx? If anyone has an idea please let me know.
>   

Try:

if ($http_user_agent ~ "Zulu_1.0" ) {
    return 403;
 }

> Sample from access_log:
>
> 190.166.242.217 - - [25/Jun/2009:06:58:57 -0500] "GET /status HTTP/1.1"
> 404 33136 "www.windowsupdate.com" "Zulu_1.0" "-"
> 209.161.112.5 - - [25/Jun/2009:07:01:02 -0500] "GET /status HTTP/1.1"
> 404 33136 "www.windowsupdate.com" "Zulu_1.0" "-"
> 68.9.101.55 - - [25/Jun/2009:07:04:18 -0500] "GET /status HTTP/1.1" 404
> 33136 "www.windowsupdate.com" "Zulu_1.0" "-"
> 200.75.204.138 - - [25/Jun/2009:07:06:48 -0500] "GET /status HTTP/1.1"
> 404 33135 "www.windowsupdate.com" "Zulu_1.0" "-"
> 200.88.242.99 - - [25/Jun/2009:07:07:25 -0500] "GET /status HTTP/1.0"
> 404 33092 "www.windowsupdate.com" "Zulu_1.0" "10.0.0.74, 127.0.0.1"
> 200.74.156.42 - - [25/Jun/2009:07:08:49 -0500] "GET /status HTTP/1.1"
> 404 33136 "www.windowsupdate.com" "Zulu_1.0" "-"
>