Programs: Lock up your servers against Fusker

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Originally Posted by raymor

Who is sparky?

me, but not by choice. |gabbo| renamed me and a general vote assigned the name. I'm in denial and protest.

Originally Posted by raymor

Also that ruleset is quite repetitive, making it terribly inefficient.
Instead the rules should be combined. For example, these two:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.yourdomain.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://yourdomain.com/.*$ [NC]

You might try benchmarking the regexp engine & the fallthrough matches sometime. You may be pleasantly surprised. I do agree with you regarding the trailing match, but, I disagree with your assessment that the regexp engine is a high performance solution that cannot be aided.