We have a certain visitor to one of our customer's sites that is sucking up a LOT of bandwidth by continually downloading one page.

We would like to redirect the IP for the accessing company (it is always the same) to a certain web page.

Is this possible? What would be the .htaccess directive?

thanks.

OK.. it seems that the accessing users's IP is occasionally changing.

Is it possible to do this same redirect based on incoming "agent"?

Here's a sample from the log file that shows the access:

204.83.191.2 - - [08/Jul/2003:00:48:56 -0700] "GET /transmission/flowdata/data1.xls HTTP/1.1" 200 261632 "-" "Microsoft URL Control - 6.00.8169"

Is it possible to redirect based on the "Microsoft URL Control - 6.00.8169" part?

If you're using Apache you could try using the ReWrite. You'll need to have mod_rewrite installed on the server. It's pretty commonly, so you may have it installed. You can check you httpd.conf for the module.

Something along the lines of:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^Microsoft URL Control - 6.00.8169*
RewriteRule ^/transmission/flowdata/data1.xls$ newfile.html [L]

(the new file should be in the same folder as the data1.xls file. Otherwise, you will want to write out the entire path (i.e. /path/to/newfile.html )

Check here for the exact syntax:

http://www.engelschall.com/pw/apache/rewriteguide/

I am not sure if this can be added to a .htaccess file. We always set up rewrite rules in the httpd.conf file.