Re: Help recognizing bots?

From: Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 10:37:41 +0000
Subject: Re: Help recognizing bots?
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http://www.funender.com/phpBB2/about18577.html Brian Dunning wrote:
I'm using the following code in an effort to identify bots: $client = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']; if(!strpos($client, 'ooglebot') && !strpos($client, 'ahoo') && !strpos ($client, 'lurp') && !strpos($client, 'msnbot')) {
    (Stuff that I do if it's not a bot)
} But it doesn't seem to be catching a lot of bot action. Anyone have a better list of user agents? (I left off the first letter of some to avoid case conflicts.)


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