Re: Fw: Spoofing user_agent

Will the header pass with using file_get_contents , or should I be using another command, and if so, which one? Ron <?php header('User Agent: RonBot (http://www.example.com)'); $url = "http://www.example.com"; $input = file_get_contents($url); The Verse of the Day “Encouragement from God’s Word” http://www.TheVerseOfTheDay.info From: Shreyas Agasthya Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2010 4:21 AM To: Ron Piggott Cc: php-general@lists.php.net ; ash@ashleysheridan.co.uk Subject: Re: [PHP] Fw: Spoofing user_agent A standard HTTP Request headers is : User Agent (without the underscore). --Shreyas On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Ron Piggott <ron.piggott@actsministries.org> wrote: Is this what you are telling me to do: header('user_agent: RonBot (http://www.theverseoftheday.info)'); Ron The Verse of the Day “Encouragement from God’s Word” http://www.TheVerseOfTheDay.info From: ash@ashleysheridan.co.uk Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2010 3:34 AM To: Ron Piggott ; php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] Fw: Spoofing user_agent You need to set it in the header request you make. Putting it in the script you're using as a spider with ini_set won't do anything because the Target site doesn't know anything about it. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk ----- Reply message ----- From: "Ron Piggott" <ron.piggott@actsministries.org> Date: Thu, Nov 25, 2010 08:25 Subject: [PHP] Fw: Spoofing user_agent To: <php-general@lists.php.net> I have wrote a script to generate a sitemap of my web site. It crawls all of the site web pages. (About 30,000) I need help to spoof the user_agent variable so the stats program running in the background ( “AWSTATS” ) will treat the crawl as a bot, not browsing usage. The sitemap generator is a cron job. I tried the syntax: ini_set('user_agent', 'RonBot (http://www.theverseoftheday.info)/'/); This didn’t work. The browsing was attributed to the dedicated IP address. How do I get AWSTATS to access this, such as other entries under the “Robots/Spiders visitors” heading: Unknown robot (identified by 'bot*') I don’t mean any ill will by changing this setting. Thanks for the help. Ron The Verse of the Day “Encouragement from God’s Word” http://www.TheVerseOfTheDay.info -- Regards, Shreyas Agasthya