Is there any way to make blocking a user actually produce a 403 Forbidden for that user for all accesses to the site?
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Paul Johnson wrote: | Is there any way to make blocking a user actually produce a 403 | Forbidden for that user for all accesses to the site?
Not unless you write it. It would generally be a poor solution for public sites as many IP addresses are shared, and this will prevent people accidentally co-blocked from even reading your site.
If you're trying to block abusive spiders and robots (that don't obey robots.txt), use the web server's configuration options for this. (Apache's 'Deny from' etc.)
There is no 1.5beta yes; I hope you're not using 1.5prealpha on a public site.
- -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Okay, so I subbed to this list when I installed a Wiki a while back, month or so ago, coz it said it was light traffic and that it was important.
I find myself deleting most of the messages unread. Is there a special security list, just announcing upgrades and holes etc? You think the traffic has got to the point where there should be? If there already is, is the some way to get it more noticiable on a google for "media wikli security list"? Higher up than the empty page on Mozilla's wiki at least?
Adam.
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Adam wrote: | Okay, so I subbed to this list when I installed a Wiki | a while back, month or so ago, coz it said it was light | traffic and that it was important. | | I find myself deleting most of the messages unread. Is | there a special security list, just announcing upgrades | and holes etc?
http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce
It's noted in all the release notices since a few versions back.
- -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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