AHC

http-library AHC\/

Async HTTP Client Java library for HTTP requests

About this crawler

AHC is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern AHC\/ in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as http-library. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block AHC traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.

Block-rate · top 25k sites

0.065%
latest snapshot
2026-06-04
matched key: AHC
2026-05-012026-06-040.11%

Technical details

Name
AHC
Pattern
AHC\/
Tags
http-library
Reference
https://github.com/AsyncHttpClient/async-http-client
Added
2017/11/02
Instances
1 known sample(s)

Sample User-Agent strings

AHC/2.0

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow AHC:

User-agent: AHC Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} AHC\/ [NC] RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

if ($http_user_agent ~* "AHC\\/") { return 403; }
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