.htaccess Allow All from Specific User Agent

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I have a website I am developing that is also going to be pulled into a web app. I have the following code in my .htaccess file to prevent access from ANYONE that is not on my allowed IP:

Order deny,allow
Deny from all
AuthName "Restricted Area - Authorization Required" 
AuthUserFile /home/content/html/.htpasswd 
AuthType Basic
Require valid-user
Allow from 12.34.567.89 
Satisfy Any

QUESTION: I would like to add an Allow from rule that will ALSO allow a specific HTTP user agent access to the site.

I found this code to redirect if not the user agent:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !=myuseragent
RewriteRule ^files/.*$ / [R=302,L]

But I can't seem to figure out how to turn this into an Allow from rule. Help?

UPDATE

I found the code below to block specific user agents... I would instead like to say "if NOT myuseragent, then block."

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
SetEnvIfNoCase ^User-Agent$ .*(libwww-perl|aesop_com_spiderman) HTTP_SAFE_BADBOT
Deny from env=HTTP_SAFE_BADBOT
</ifModule>
.htaccess user-agent
6 Answers

I used a version like sys0dm1n's answer.

This is my .htaccess file. It allows Google Sheets to access a directory on my server.

AuthType Basic
AuthName "Password Protected Area"
AuthUserFile /var/tools/.htpasswd
<If "%{HTTP_USER_AGENT} == 'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; GoogleDocs; apps-spreadsheets; +http://docs.google.com)'">
Require all granted
</If>
<Else>
Require valid-user
</Else>

Go to your access.log file in your apache folder to see which User-Agent you need to allow or block.

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