htaccess question
 

If I want to redirect all Arabic Language Browsers would the following work:

RehahahahahaCond %{HTTP:Accept-Language} ar* [NC]
RehahahahahaRule .* http://www.yahoo.com

My question is about the "ar*" , is that correct?

I would like to avoid having multiple lines for: ar-dz, ar-bh, etc...
So I am guessing putting a * is a wildcard?

Thx!

:moon :moon :moon :moon

yes ar is correct, but you do not need the wild card.

There are some really good tools/tips for htaccess here:

http://www.clockwatchers.com/htaccess_tool.html

:thumbsup

Ivy

But without the wild card I would need multiple lines to block
all the Arabic codes right? i.e.:

RehahahahahaCond %{HTTP:Accept-Language} ar-dz [NC]
RehahahahahaRule .* http://www.yahoo.com
RehahahahahaCond %{HTTP:Accept-Language} ar-bh [NC]
RehahahahahaRule .* http://www.yahoo.com
RehahahahahaCond %{HTTP:Accept-Language} ar-eg [NC]
RehahahahahaRule .* http://www.yahoo.com
RehahahahahaCond %{HTTP:Accept-Language} ar-iq [NC]

I would like to block all browsers that have ar followed by anything. So if not a *, what would I use?

Thx!

I believe if you put a start of line anchor ie: ^ in front of the language code it'll cover them all.

^ar [NC]

would get ar-dz, ar-bh, etc...

Arabic Language Browsers ?

For what ? :ak47: :BangBang:


:1orglaugh

Maybe for redirecting them to dialers or worse

Correct. ^ is start of string $ is end of str-ing.

http://www.webpimps.com/scripts/htaccess/

-Ben

oh btw...

ar*

* isn't the wildcard character the period (.) is.

.* = anything zero or more times

.+ = anything 1 or more times.

-Ben

yep. he's right.