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I wanted to know that How to block unknown browsers in .htaccess? There is a Directive that can be used in .htaccess called BrowserMatchNoCase but I do not know how to work with it.

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    what do you mean unknown browsers?
    – masegaloeh
    May 16, 2014 at 18:50
  • Robot , spam softwares , hackers made browsers to do some action May 16, 2014 at 18:53
  • This won't actually help you. The User-Agent header can be whatever the client wants to identify itself as. You're far more likely to punish innocent programs that are being truthful, because there's nothing to stop a malicious program from identifying itself as a popular web browser.
    – Andrew B
    May 16, 2014 at 19:44

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You could create a whitelist.

However, this is a pointless endevour. While a lot of scripts and scanners, etc... will sometimes have a fake or custom created UA (user-agent), lots of the scripts these days will just mimic known UA strings, which renders just about every possible blacklist or whitelist approach pointless.

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