does whitelisting patterns / regex work ?

  • Resolved kerryoco

    (@kerryoco)


    5 years, 6 months ago

    Awesome simple plugin thanks, it’s blocking about 2000 bots a day for me.
    It looks like whitelist only works by exact match.
    Any chance you could code in a wildcard (*) operator?

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  • Plugin Author Oliver Campion

    (@domainsupport)

    5 years, 6 months ago

    This plugin is predominately used by clients of ours to protect their sites and our servers so regex isn’t something they would ever ask about but … having said that … the following whitelist examples are indeed supported …

    /example/([0-9a-z.\-]+).zip
/wp-content/plugins/example/([0-9a-z.\-]+).php
/example/(.*)

    It’s not a documented feature because it isn’t something that people would normally know about 🙂

    Hope that helps?

    Oliver

    PS – Glad to hear that someone else finds that this plugin works for them!

    Thread Starter kerryoco

    (@kerryoco)

    5 years, 6 months ago

    Awesome thanks!
    And yep, we had an “Anonymous Fox” attack recently, and even after cleaning the site, we’re still on their list of bot network “members” it seems, because I can see them once a second or more trying to talk to malware which no longer exists on the site. So this was a catch-all solve for it.

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