diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 83b0f0ad0..848516beb 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -26,10 +26,16 @@ Bots attempt to make themselves look like other software or web sites by disguis Their user agent names may look harmless, perfectly legitimate even. For example, "^Java" but according to Project Honeypot, it's actually one of the most dangerous BUT a lot of -legitimate bots out there have "Java" in their user agent string so the approach taken by many to block is -not only ignorant but also blocking out very legitimate crawlers including some of Google's and Bing's. +legitimate bots out there have "Java" in their user agent string so the approach taken by many to block "Java" +is not only ignorant but also blocking out very legitimate crawlers including some of Google's and Bing's and +makes it very clear to me that those people writing bot blocking scripts seldom ever test them. -# Welcome to the Ultimate Bad Bot and Referer Blocker for Nginx Web Server +Unfortunately most bot blocker scripts out there are simply copy and pasted from other people's scripts and made +to look like their own work. This one was inspired by the one created by https://github.com/mariusv and I +contributed to that project but went off into a totally new layout, cleaned it up big time and started from scratch. +It is now a completely independent project. It's clean, it works and has been thoroughly tested. + +# Welcome to the Ultimate Bad Bot and Referer Blocker for Nginx Web Server with and Anti DDOS system ### THE BASICS