RFE: API for adding blocked IPs for a vhost/directory "from the side"

[ts77]

Hello folks,

I'm having my own DoS-protection build into my php-scripts.
Those are checking how many accesses to the php-pages are done by which ip and so on.
Once a user hits a given threshold his IP is added to a .htaccess-file and removed after a specified ban-time.

that results in the following:

2006-06-12 23:44:21.195 [INFO] [HTAccess] Configuration file [/home/xxx/forum_v51/.htaccess] changed.
2006-06-12 23:44:21.195 [INFO] [HTAccess] Updating configuration from [/home/xxx/forum_v51/.htaccess]
2006-06-12 23:44:52.026 [INFO] [HTAccess] Configuration file [/home/xxx/forum_v51/.htaccess] changed.
2006-06-12 23:44:52.026 [INFO] [HTAccess] Updating configuration from [/home/xxx/forum_v51/.htaccess]
2006-06-12 23:44:52.240 [INFO] [HTAccess] Configuration file [/home/xxx/www/forum_v2/.htaccess] changed.
2006-06-12 23:44:52.240 [INFO] [HTAccess] Updating configuration from [/home/xxx/www/forum_v2/.htaccess]
2006-06-12 23:45:17.682 [INFO] [HTAccess] Configuration file [/home/xxx/www/forum_v2/.htaccess] changed.
2006-06-12 23:45:17.682 [INFO] [HTAccess] Updating configuration from [/home/xxx/www/forum_v2/.htaccess]
2006-06-12 23:45:22.331 [INFO] [HTAccess] Configuration file [/home/xxx/forum_v51/.htaccess] changed.
2006-06-12 23:45:22.331 [INFO] [HTAccess] Updating configuration from [/home/xxx/forum_v51/.htaccess]
2006-06-12 23:45:53.306 [INFO] [HTAccess] Configuration file [/home/xxx/www/forum_v2/.htaccess] changed.
2006-06-12 23:45:53.306 [INFO] [HTAccess] Updating configuration from [/home/xxx/www/forum_v2/.htaccess]
2006-06-12 23:45:54.453 [INFO] [HTAccess] Configuration file [/home/xxx/forum_v51/.htaccess] changed.
2006-06-12 23:45:54.453 [INFO] [HTAccess] Updating configuration from [/home/xxx/forum_v51/.htaccess]
2006-06-12 23:46:19.040 [INFO] [HTAccess] Configuration file [/home/xxx/www/forum_v2/.htaccess] changed.
2006-06-12 23:46:19.040 [INFO] [HTAccess] Updating configuration from [/home/xxx/www/forum_v2/.htaccess]
2006-06-12 23:46:19.163 [INFO] [HTAccess] Configuration file [/home/xxx/forum_v51/.htaccess] changed.
2006-06-12 23:46:19.163 [INFO] [HTAccess] Updating configuration from [/home/xxx/forum_v51/.htaccess]
2006-06-12 23:46:49.224 [INFO] [HTAccess] Configuration file [/home/xxx/www/forum_v2/.htaccess] changed.
2006-06-12 23:46:49.224 [INFO] [HTAccess] Updating configuration from [/home/xxx/www/forum_v2/.htaccess]
2006-06-12 23:46:49.228 [INFO] [HTAccess] Configuration file [/home/xxx/forum_v51/.htaccess] changed.
2006-06-12 23:46:49.228 [INFO] [HTAccess] Updating configuration from [/home/xxx/forum_v51/.htaccess]
2006-06-12 23:47:19.554 [INFO] [HTAccess] Configuration file [/home/xxx/forum_v51/.htaccess] changed.
2006-06-12 23:47:19.554 [INFO] [HTAccess] Updating configuration from [/home/xxx/forum_v51/.htaccess]
2006-06-12 23:47:21.382 [INFO] [HTAccess] Configuration file [/home/xxx/www/forum_v2/.htaccess] changed.
2006-06-12 23:47:21.382 [INFO] [HTAccess] Updating configuration from [/home/xxx/www/forum_v2/.htaccess]

which I don't see as a perfomance-enhancement with all its reloading of the htaccess ;-).

Therefore I'd like to see a way to update the blocked ips for a vhost or directory through some api from an app.