User agent isn't very useful. Most web spiders can be set to return what ever user agent needed. You are depending on the writers/users of the spiders to follow commonly acceptable practices ie looking for robots.txt and the like.
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 14:54:49 +0100 "Wilbert Enserink" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > regards Wilbert > > > ------------------------- > Pas de Deux > Van Mierisstraat 25 > 2526 NM Den Haag > tel 070 4450855 > fax 070 4450852 > http://www.pdd.nl > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ------------------------- -- Tom Woody Systems Administrator NationWide Flood Research, Inc. phone: 214-631-0400 x209 fax: 214-631-0800 Don't throw your computer out the window, throw the Windows out of your computer! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
