[ic] New Robot UAs

Grant emailgrant at gmail.com
Sun Jan 16 17:52:24 UTC 2011


>>>>> Everyone,
>>>>>
>>>>> I've been going through Apache data lately and have discovered at
>>>>> least two new robots
>>>>> that ought to be added to robots.cfg:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1) 'bingbot'
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.bing.com/toolbox/blogs/webmaster/archive/2010/06/28/bing-crawler-bingbot-on-the-horizon.aspx
>>>>>
>>>>> Looks like Microsoft has changed the UA for MSNBot, but Interchange is
>>>>> no longer recognizing it.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It should still recognize it, as the simple term "bot" is in the RobotUA
>>>> list.
>>>> Neverless I added it.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>        Racke
>>>
>>> SurveyBot is also not triggering the spider detection.  Maybe the
>>> "bot" entry only works if it appears after a delimiter in the UA?
>>>
>>> - Grant
>>
>> Also AdsBot of "AdsBot-Google-Mobile
>> (+http://www.google.com/mobile/adsbot.html)".
>
> That works for me (no session, $Session->{spider} == 1) with current
> Interchange from Git.

OK thanks for testing.  It must be because I'm on 5.6.3.

- Grant



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