refer-redir

Middleware for blocking requests based on referrer.

If any request contains a portain of a blocked referrer, the request will be blocked.

If a blocked referrer is encountered the response is ended. Currently, this will respond with a 200 code and an empty body.

npm install refer-redir

Options

filename

• name of file containing line separated urls to ignore
• NOTE: this is read synchronously

links

• array of urls to ignore

Examples

Reading from a file

var refer_redir = require("refer-redir");
app.use( refer_redir(".blocked") );

Providing an array of urls

var refer_redir = require("refer-redir");
app.use( refer_redir( ["darodar.com","sirspamalot.org"] ) );

Problems

This may not be the best way to go about this. But my blog is being hit with a ton of spam from certain referrers. So this is my quick fix.

Of course the spammers could just drop the referrer header and this is rendered useless...but it will do for now.