Allow One User Agent to access CGI-BIN

[jonnico]

Hello,

I dont have access to the server conf file so...

Using .htaccess how can I deny access to a perl script in the cgi-bin from all user agents including user agents that are unknown but accept from a user agent with a CustomWord in the user agent string.

Like: "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; CustomWord)"

Keeping in mind that the CustomWord is the one I want to identify and allow, every other user agent without this word or with no useragent at all will get a banned page.

I hope this makes sence.
I tried with a cgi snippet but it doesnt work very well.
I read about the mod_access, but I dont beleive my host allows it. So is their a rewritecondition rule I can use.
How would it be written and will the .htaccess file be in the cgi-bin or the root.

[pippo]

Hi,
in my opinion you can't do that with .htaccess but you could by using httpd.conf

The reason is because usually /cgi-bin/ is set as a ScriptAlias within httpd.conf so when you access
example.com/cgi-bin/
Apache won't check your document root, where index.html is stored and where .htaccess can be read, but it will go directly into the cgi-bin directory of your server.
The cgi-bin directory of your server is usually outside your document root,
and usually you cannot put .htaccess there.

Example:
example.com/.htaccess
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule etc etc

if you try to access
example.com/cgi-bin/
the above .htaccess *won't* be read by Apache

if you try to access
example.com/pippo.gif
the above .htaccess *will* be read by Apache


Andrea