Title: Blocking user agents.
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Blocking user agents.

 *  Resolved [hsnyc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hsnyc/)
 * (@hsnyc)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-user-agents/)
 * I had an instance last week where my downloads numbers dramatically jumped to
   2000+ in a single day when it normally is just a few hundreds.. I found out that
   a user agent by the name of ‘AndroidDownloadManager’ was the culprit. My guess
   is that someone had tried to download my app from their phone and this agent 
   kept re-trying and thus making the download numbers jump. I was wondering if 
   there is a way to block, by either IP or by user agent, after a certain amount
   of downloads..? for instance, I would have liked to block this IP after it attempted
   to download the file more that 5 times (lets say) in a period of 10 minutes for
   instance. This will be use-full in order to stop cases like these.
 * Thank you and I love your plug in by the way.
 * Have an awesome day!
    Henry hsnyc.co
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 *  Plugin Author [A5hleyRich](https://wordpress.org/support/users/a5hleyrich/)
 * (@a5hleyrich)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-user-agents/#post-4882112)
 * Hi,
 * Yes, you can block downloads by user agent from the Settings screen under the
   General tab. However, there is currently a bug in this feature which doesn’t 
   always block the download; an update to address this issue will available by 
   tomorrow.
 * Ashley
 *  Plugin Author [A5hleyRich](https://wordpress.org/support/users/a5hleyrich/)
 * (@a5hleyrich)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-user-agents/#post-4882385)
 * Fixed in version 1.3.8. Please update.
 * Ashley

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 * Last reply from: [A5hleyRich](https://wordpress.org/support/users/a5hleyrich/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blocking-user-agents/#post-4882385)
 * Status: resolved