Unix/Linux : How to test user agents blocked successfully ?




This is actually a continuation from the tutorial on how to configure nginx to block certain user agents. To test if a web server will response with the configured response status... you can use curl command.

For example :

curl -I https://www.somewebsite.com

will return HTTP/1.1 200 OK status

and if the Nginx or Apache web server is configured to block certain user agents .... let say wget

try adding -H 'User-agent: wget' parameter to the curl command like below

curl -I -H 'User-agent: wget' https://www.somewebsite.com

and it will return HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden status

Hope this quick tutorial is helpful for you to check if your Nginx configuration or Apache configuration to block certain user agents is working successfully or not.





By Adam Ng

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