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Iron Fist · 05-26-2007, 11:39 AM

I was looking through some of my logs and one of my sites is riddled with offline browsers:

WebRipper 25 May 2007 - 18:14
Download_Master 25 May 2007 - 06:28
WebStripper/2.09 24 May 2007 - 18:52
WebStripper/3_beta_03 24 May 2007 - 17:09
Download_Ninja_3.0 24 May 2007 - 13:15
Offline_Explorer/4.4 18 May 2007 - 18:23

and on and on and on....

Chances of these people converting are slim to none I would think... any benefit to trying to block those user agents in the .htaccess file?

05-26-2007, 11:39 AM
Iron Fist Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 23,400	Do anyone block Website Downloader User-Agents? I was looking through some of my logs and one of my sites is riddled with offline browsers: WebRipper 25 May 2007 - 18:14 Download_Master 25 May 2007 - 06:28 WebStripper/2.09 24 May 2007 - 18:52 WebStripper/3_beta_03 24 May 2007 - 17:09 Download_Ninja_3.0 24 May 2007 - 13:15 Offline_Explorer/4.4 18 May 2007 - 18:23 and on and on and on.... Chances of these people converting are slim to none I would think... any benefit to trying to block those user agents in the .htaccess file? __________________ i like waffles