Posted by Rik on 03/11/07 01:36

Baron Samedi <Papa.Legba.666@gmail.com> wrote:

> I coded up a hit counter, then extended it to see who was reading my
> blog, by matching IP. The problem is that I am swamped by crawlers.
>
> How can I detect a human, or a crawler? If I can handle one, I can
> negate it for the other.
>
> Should I somehow user $_SERVER['USER_AGENT'] ? or something else?

Nice crawlers: yes.
Evil crawlers: no, they just copy a valid UA-string.

<http://www.user-agents.org/index.shtml>

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