Topic awaiting preservation: blocking certain browsers via .htaccess

I wanna block opera (since this asshole is using opera's timed refresh option)
how can I block that?

I'm not sure if it is possible to do that using .htaccess but you could just use PHP, for example, to detect the browser and redirect them to another page - I would say doing this is unwise but it is your call.

Emps

You can do that by using mod_rewrite Apache module...




[This message has been edited by mr.maX (edited 04-15-2002).]

I have had like one opera user before this clown..
what's the php code then?

Browser detection:
www.ozoneasylum.com/Forum8/HTML/000183.html

then redirect using:
www.php.net/header

That should be enough to do the job. I must admit I'd be more tempted to try and pop a message up on the site asking him not to or see if I couldn't block him by his IP or ... Anyone got any better/neater solutions?

Emps

As I've said mod_rewrite can be used to do this. Simply put the following code in your .htaccess file and everyone who uses Opera will get a "403 Forbidden" error message, when they try to access anything (html pages, images, etc.):

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} .*Opera.*
RewriteRule .+ - [F]

I dont think my server has mod rewrite --;

Well, most web hosts have it installed. You can try to ask your web host to install it - maybe they will...

There's another apache directive you can play with called SetEnvIf
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_setenvif.html

Again, it needs a module installed (mod_setenvif), so good luck finding out - but taking a cursory glance at one of the boxes here, it appears to be a standard installed module for apache.

stinx