Block by other logic

If the above methods are insufficient, a request can be blocked based on custom logic with the VIP_Request_Block::block_and_log() method. This method blocks a request and logs a message to the error_log. The condition in which a given request will be blocked must be defined using custom logic.

The following is an example of blocking a request to a specific URL:

// Example VIP_Request_Block::block_and_log( string $value, string $criteria );
if ( isset( $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] ) && '/disallowed-path' === $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] ) {
   if ( class_exists( 'VIP_Request_Block' ) ) {
     VIP_Request_Block::block_and_log( '/disallowed-path', 'REQUEST URI' );
   }
}

In the example above, requests made to /disallowed-path will produce the following message in the error_log:

VIP Request Block: request was blocked based on "REQUEST_URI" with value of "/disallowed-path"