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Can we get support of developers to integrate my way of catching bad bots in CSF?
My way id 100% accurate against bad bots, mail harvesters and spam bots, and site scrapers.


It is based in 3 steps:
1. allow good bots.
2. blind all others.
3. block all bad bots in htaccess when hit bot trap url

Only bad thing is constantly grow of htaccess file.

If we add temp ban to bad bot solution will be perfect. Less cpu usage, less processing of htaccess, more human visitors, 0% of bad bots.

Thanks for support this tread and give ideas.
Regards

No one interested?
Why?

You should do that sort of thing using ModSecurity which was designed for it. csf can then block IP addresses that trigger ModSecurity rules.