Squid in front of Zope is the most powerful solution for web-access ACLs. I'm not sure if ZServer provides much in the way of blocking an IP address... This might best be dealt with at an outer router / packet-filter... Other than robots.txt, another option is to integrate code into your application that looks at REQUEST for the client IP does a RESPONSE.redirect() to a text error page to prevent the spidering... I think it is assumed by a lot of folks that if you need anything more powerful than code at the application level (i.e. ACLs or Layer 4 filtering), that you have Apache or Squid in front of it, if not a router/firewall. Sean -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Lewandowski [mailto:kevinsl@yahoo.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 1:07 PM To: zope@zope.org Subject: [Zope] Block IP address in Z-Server? Hi, is it possible to ban an ip address from accessing Zope? (similar to Apache's "Deny from" directive). There are some idiots doing ridiculous amounts of spidering against my site and I want to block their IP's. If not does anyone know of an os-level way to block it? (I'm running linux) thanks a lot -Kevin __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts & NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger http://im.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )