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# Annoy bad actors with a fake, infinite web site!

If you've ever read your Apache log files, you know that much of the traffic
to your website is just bots or spiders. Some spiders are from Good Actors,
like Google, or Yahoo. Some spiders are set in motion by Bad Actors, and
a lot of those Bad Actors deserve to be sent down a hole with no bottom.

Do you want to do this? Do you control an Apache web server? If so, `bork.php`
can help you make SEO spammers and others believe that you have the world's
bigget web site, all filled with original, colorful "content". Set up properly,
`bork.php` can generate a new HTML file, a new image (GIF,JPEG or PNG), even
a new `robots.txt` file on every single invocation. This can drive certain
software to the edge of its abilities.

Yes, this is a dual-use technology. We're all adults here, aren't we?

## Features
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There's too many ways to configure Apache for me to tell you where to put this. But it does need to be either in `httpd.conf` or some file included by `httpd.conf`.

You replace `SomeUglyBot` by a string that appears in the User Agent of some organization that you want to mess with. I find that "AhrefsBot" and "Ezooms" are two good candidate User Agent sub-strings.
You replace `SomeUglyBot` by a string that appears in the User Agent of some organization that you want to mess with. I find that "AhrefsBot" and "MJ12bot" are two good candidate User Agent sub-strings.

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