> I doubt if this can be done, but it there a way to detect a spambot > as compared to a SE indexing your site? They are both basically the > same, right?
Yes, if you can assume that a spambot will be doing sneaky things to hide its origin or identity. The "bad behavior" project has been trying to develop a script to detect bad spambots and other evil robots based on rule-breaking: "Bad Behavior is a set of PHP scripts which prevents spambots from accessing your site by analyzing their actual HTTP requests and comparing them to profiles from known spambots. It goes far beyond User-Agent and Referer, however. Bad Behavior is available for several PHP-based software packages, and also can be integrated in seconds into any PHP script." http://www.ioerror.us/software/bad-behavior/ Worth checking out.. - schnippy -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
