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Dianna_129659's avatar
Dianna_129659
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Mar 05, 2014

Whitelist a user agent

We use Pingdom to alert us when our site is down. We also block most IP Addresses that are not within the United States (we do business only within the US). Is there a way that I can whitelist the Pi...
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Kevin_Stewart's avatar
Kevin_Stewart
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Mar 05, 2014

There are tons of browser-based tools to manipulate HTTP headers, as well as simply doing something like this:

curl -k -H "User-Agent: pingdom" https://yoursite.domain.com

Filtering on IP addresses would be much harder to spoof, but still not completely impossible.