[interchange] Add MSIE and Gecko UA strings to the default list of NotRobotUA patterns

David Christensen interchange-cvs at icdevgroup.org
Thu Oct 21 02:23:02 UTC 2010


commit 78986165ea7ffba61879a8fa6915915ae809f853
Author: David Christensen <david at endpoint.com>
Date:   Wed Oct 20 21:12:20 2010 -0500

    Add MSIE and Gecko UA strings to the default list of NotRobotUA patterns
    
    This will correct a string of false positives found when checking the
    list of RobotUAs against the wide variety of toolbars found in the
    wild in User-Agent strings.
    
    This does open up the possibility of more obscure bots getting
    assigned sessions from the appserver, but this was deemed to be a
    reasonable tradeoff given the current bot/toolbar ecosystem.

 WHATSNEW-5.7    |   10 ++++++++++
 dist/robots.cfg |    2 ++
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/WHATSNEW-5.7 b/WHATSNEW-5.7
index 1cfed19..0f3891e 100644
--- a/WHATSNEW-5.7
+++ b/WHATSNEW-5.7
@@ -8,6 +8,16 @@
 See UPGRADE document for a list of incompatible changes.
 
 
+Interchange 5.7.7
+
+Core
+----
+* Ensure users were always assigned sessions when using major
+  browsers, regardless of any toolbar matches in the User Agent
+  string.
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
 Interchange 5.7.6 released on 2010-03-23.
 
 Core
diff --git a/dist/robots.cfg b/dist/robots.cfg
index 6fc3db7..233bbf4 100644
--- a/dist/robots.cfg
+++ b/dist/robots.cfg
@@ -168,6 +168,8 @@ NotRobotUA <<EOR
     AskTB,
     Seekmo,
     SearchToolbar,
+    MSIE,
+    Gecko,
 EOR
 
 RobotIP <<EOR



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