[vox-tech] how to modify .htaccess to prevent wget or the likes from downing my site?

[Tony Cratz]

On 05/25/2011 11:50 AM, Hai Yi wrote:
> I first asked this question to the support of my web host, and they
> redirected me to this link:
> http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=437549
> 
> and the snippet on that page looks like:
> 
> 
> SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^Wget" bad_bot
> 
> <Limit GET POST>
>    Order Allow,Deny
>    Allow from all
>    Deny from env=bad_bot
> </Limit>


	From reading this message and latter ones I have to ask, would
	it be better to do a deny from all and allow only the browser
	you want? At times it is easier to do things the reverse way
	of doing things as it can be must simplier to set up.

							Tony