A certain spambot makes periodic requests to my app in 10-minute intervals at 20/requests each time. Throughout the course of the day, this amounts to almost 3,000 requests and has been tremendously straining my instance hours resources. The user agent of the bot is:
"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0" This bot makes requests that appear to be normal user requests and each time, the IP address varies - so I cannot blacklist by IP. I am currently returning a 503 access denied server error but the bot continues to make the requests on schedule, 20 at a time. Can I block http requests by user agent rather than IP? Please help, I cannot continue the project while servicing up to 3,000 invalid requests to single bot. Thank you. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
