How To Block Google’s Web Accelerator

How To Block Google’s Web Accelerator
Note: We have published an update to this article here:
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How To Block Google’s Web Accelerator – Update
Please make sure you adjust your existing .htaccess code for optimum protection!

(bro) A very fast and efficacious method of denying Google Web Accelerator (GWA) funneled traffic access to
your web site is blocking the IPs it is calling your pages from.

The current GWA IPs are allocated to the following IP range: 72.14.192.0 – 72.14.192.255

The best procedure for Linux/Unix systems is working with the .htaccess file and Apache’s module mod_rewrite.

For this to work, the following server configuration is required:

Apache web server with module mod_rewrite installed.
.htaccess functionality enabled.

If you don’t know whether these requirements are fulfilled please ask your system administrator – provided he or she
knows. They really should, but unfortunately some plain do not …

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