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Posted by hug on 12/17/05 18:04
"Ian B" <ianbambury@gmail.com> wrote:
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>hug wrote:
>> I think it was in some PHPBB forum or other that I noticed the number
>> of bots was displayed.
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>> I track page-displays, and would like to keep separate information for
>> bots vs humans.
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>> Are there any clues available on how to detect bots? Do they use
>> different user-agent identities? Is there a list someplace or do I
>> need to begin gathering data? tia.
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>> http://www.ren-prod-inc.com/hug_soft/store.php?action=contact
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>Well, they pretty much all try to get hold of robots.txt
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>Ian
Good clue, thanks <duh>.
Is there a list someplace of all the strings the various known
browsers use to identify themselves? I only know what a few of the
popular browsers are.
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