Re: catching a robot or spider

From: Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 16:32:50 +0000
Subject: Re: catching a robot or spider
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On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 14:54:49 +0100 "Wilbert Enserink" <wilbert@pdd.nl> wrote:
Hi all, does anybody know a way to make a distinction between robots and users? should I use the user agent? Or is this not a safe method. If the visitor is a spider/robot I want to include some script containing extra URL's for the robot.
The best way I've found of doing this is to include the links as 1x1 transparent gifs on the index page. -- Stuart

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