How to deny access to your Apache web server to all Microsoft browser users

[darxus]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/fail/$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} .*MSIE.*
RewriteRule .* /fail/ [R]

This redirects to the /fail/ page on your web site.

It will be interesting to see what happens to my log files.

(Reason in previous post.)

Comments

[marmota.livejournal.com]

That rocks.

[darxus.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[marmota.livejournal.com]

It might be more productive in the long run to rather than block, redirect to a simple page with a rant message along the lines of, "we're sorry, the browser you are currently using does not comply with internationally recognized standards. Please notify your browser vendor, or switch to one that does.".

[darxus.livejournal.com]

Apparently the links in my post were too subtle.

I am redirecting all MSIE users to http://www.chaosreigns.com/fail/

[marmota.livejournal.com]

speaking of browsers then, my browser of choice (w3m) does not highlight links. Guess it's not compliant!