I don't like mucking with .htaccess files, but maybe that's just me.

If you have the means to track and count warnings, then you also have the means to restrict access within the script. Why not simply return a 'forbidden' page from the script?

I've kind of been doing the same thing with one of my web apps. Failed login attempts are recorded in a table keyed by the client address (found in $ENV{'REMOTE_ADDR'}). Once a failure is recorded, any following attempts to login from the same client return an 'unauthorized' message (the failure records expire after 10 seconds).

In reply to Re: A module to deny ip on multiple sketchy http requests, yes, no? by ruzam
in thread A module to deny ip on multiple sketchy http requests, yes, no? by leocharre

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