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Richard Grevers
New Pleskian
Hi,
we have one Drupal site which is costing a fortune in spurious International traffic. We are using cloudflare, which is reducing much traffic, but not enough, since many requests are to non-cacheable pages.
I have turned on the HTTP_CF_IPCOUNTRY header at cloudflare, so every request for this site will contain the country of origin. The requests are coming from a wide range of IP addresses but predominantly from certain countries - the usual suspects. Since this is country-specific, blocking these countries won't hurt too much.
Options via Drupal are no use because it's forbidden page is still 200KB
So I'm looking for a solution that happens before Drupal receives the request, and which responds in as few bytes as possible and with the error code most likely to make the bots give up.
we have one Drupal site which is costing a fortune in spurious International traffic. We are using cloudflare, which is reducing much traffic, but not enough, since many requests are to non-cacheable pages.
I have turned on the HTTP_CF_IPCOUNTRY header at cloudflare, so every request for this site will contain the country of origin. The requests are coming from a wide range of IP addresses but predominantly from certain countries - the usual suspects. Since this is country-specific, blocking these countries won't hurt too much.
Options via Drupal are no use because it's forbidden page is still 200KB
So I'm looking for a solution that happens before Drupal receives the request, and which responds in as few bytes as possible and with the error code most likely to make the bots give up.
