Stopping Unwanted Page Requests

Sometimes our systems get bombarded with regular illegal page requests (probably a spider with terrible coding). In these instances it is preferable to be able to block this traffic before all the page resources are loaded.

For this purpose our Errors Module has been expanded to include an option to 'intercept and block at header' option - this is configured as follows:

The 'error message' field (normally used for part of the human-readable error message generated by system errors) is now used to specify the query_string being passed in the URL that is being used.

The 'intercept and block' setting must be set to yes: