wget

[Alphax]

Damien Bezborodow wrote:
> Raymond Orchison wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Does anyone know how to stop a wget from been run on an apache web
>> server. I want to prevent remote users from sucking down my entire site.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Raymond
>>
>>
> 
> I'm pretty sure that Wget has a user agent string. Although, that
> mechanism would be easy to bypass.
> 
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/howto/access.html#env
> 

Yes, wget has an option to give an arbitrary user agent:

--user-agent=agent-string

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