feature request: web security - bot protection

Feature request: Much like Sync's Control Panel > Properties > Security Tab where you can delay/throttle/block/etc, this request would give the ability to recognize bots hitting Sync's webv4 service. Many bots can be recognized with the generation of 404 errors. Example: https://x-bit.org/info/downloads/bots.jpg

Rational for request: Bot's can somewhat takeover the web logs as they tend to be very aggressive hitting quickly throughout day.

I use fail2ban to achieve this. Follow here: https://wiki.synchro.net/howto:fail2ban

I then added these lines to my /etc/fail2ban/jail.d/sbbs.conf jail config.

[sbbs-web] enabled = true filter = sbbs-web action = iptables-allports[name=SBBS-web, protocol=all] logpath = /var/log/sbbs.log maxretry = 3 findtime = 21600 bantime = 21600

and then my /etc/fail2ban/filter.d/sbbs-web.conf:

[INCLUDES] before = common.conf

[Definition] failregex = : web.HTTP.[].*!ERROR: ignoreregex =

Remember to do a:

fail2ban-client reload

to reload your new configs.

This is a *nix only solution?

There appears to be something called win2ban (https://itefix.net/win2ban) and F2B (https://github.com/vokac/F2B) for windows which look similar to fail2ban for linux.