Sorry man, excuse my ignorance, but not sure what you are asking. I got the bot name from AWstats, which I assume is just ASCII. Regards, -Montana On Tue, Apr 22, 2025 at 1:58 PM Adam Thompson <athompso@athompso.net<mailto:athompso@athompso.net>> wrote: Urlencode or octal? Or if it's a regex just use ".". -Adam Get Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg> ________________________________ From: Montana Quiring <montanaq@gmail.com<mailto:montanaq@gmail.com>> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2025 1:47:31 PM To: Continuation of Round Table discussion <roundtable@muug.ca<mailto:roundtable@muug.ca>> Subject: [RndTbl] .htaccess file: stopping robot with escape character in name Hello Folks, I'm trying to stop a bot from crawling a site using the .htaccess file. The problem is that it's using the backslash character as its name. Grrr... It's called: Unknown robot identified by bot\* This generates an internal server error: RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ("Unknown robot identified by bot\*") [NC] I tried, this, but it didn't help: RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ("Unknown robot identified by bot\\*") [NC] Any thoughts? Regards, -Montana _______________________________________________ Roundtable mailing list -- roundtable@muug.ca<mailto:roundtable@muug.ca> To unsubscribe send an email to roundtable-leave@muug.ca<mailto:roundtable-leave@muug.ca> _______________________________________________ Roundtable mailing list -- roundtable@muug.ca To unsubscribe send an email to roundtable-leave@muug.ca