leave an http request hanging with php

[cloudzero]

so spammers have been hitting my site

using php, is there a way to just stop responding to the spammer?

instead of banning their ip and returing a 403,

i want to just leave them hanging, and let them wait forever for the site to respond. can this be done in php?

 

i know exactly which visitors are spammers.

unless you guys can suggest a more malicious way to deal with them using php i would like to hear it too

 

ideally i would like to get them to stop hittng my site because it is screwing up my stats and logs, even the 403 connections are logged

[lemmin]

You could Redirect them to an endless loop. You could increase the max execution time, too, so that they don't see that error after 30 seconds.

[cloudzero]

wouldn't that lagg my server?

[lemmin]

Probably. You could try to make some kind of connection to a irresponsive host, that would be pretty laggy.

[cloudzero]

the spammer is using this useragent

 

"Microsoft URL Control - 6.00.8862"

 

 

i've tried using header to redirect it to a 100 meg file on another domain, but it doesnt seem to work

so i think it just reads all responeses in text format, inlcuding its headers

 

i think the best way is to ignore or delay response

 

any solution?

[cloudzero]

no other suggestions?

[corbin]

if(the user is bad) { //not sure how you would check this
    while(1 != 2) {    
        sleep(3600);
    }
}

 

That should delay them infinitely without much of a hit to your server, although it would leave scripts running and might make apache create more threads and some other weird side effects....

[trq]

If your on a linux server and have the access you could add them to a black list via iptables. This will leave them hanging with no response.