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What .htaccess rewriterule should i use to detect known bots, for example the big ones:

altavista, google, bing, yahoo

I know i can check for their ips, or hosts, but is there a better way?

mkoryak
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RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} AltaVista [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Googlebot [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} msnbot [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Slurp
RewriteRule ^.*$ IHateBots.html [L]
Jeremy Stein
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