GShttpBL - block bad bots

[morvy]

Hello everybody,

I've made this small plugin, which uses projecthoneypot.org's http:BL service to detect bots (by IP address) and prevents them from crawling the website by showing (custom) 503 error message. From what I tried, it doesn't affect performance of page (not more than 150ms from my tests on first load).

Credits for great & easy to use script that communicates with http:BL API go to Thasmo

How to use this plugin

1. Extract to /plugins directory
   
2. Enable plugin
   
3. Go to Plugins/right panel "GShttpBL settings"
   
4. fill in required fields:
   

• http:BL api-key
  
• "type" of bot - Suspicious, Harvester, Spammer etc.
  
• Threat level
  
• Filtering type
  

Maybe those filtering combinations are useless as you can set Threat level to 255 to skip filtering by threat level, but maybe some people will find it easier to use the plugin this way.
Plugin also logs every IP/visitor type/threat level that was blocked into the log file (accessible from plugin settings).