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new 189d18a2f7 Expand the CrawlerSessionManagerValve docs
189d18a2f7 is described below
commit 189d18a2f72315b682df245d099b7d8aec181825
Author: Mark Thomas <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Mon May 18 11:58:25 2026 +0100
Expand the CrawlerSessionManagerValve docs
---
webapps/docs/changelog.xml | 4 ++++
webapps/docs/config/valve.xml | 17 ++++++++++++-----
2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/webapps/docs/changelog.xml b/webapps/docs/changelog.xml
index 293a35b58e..97a663f2a4 100644
--- a/webapps/docs/changelog.xml
+++ b/webapps/docs/changelog.xml
@@ -160,6 +160,10 @@
Manager: Add checks to ensure that the requested context path for a
deployed WAR, directory or descriptor file is valid. (markt)
</add>
+ <add>
+ Documentation: Expand the description of some of the attributes of the
+ <code>CrawlerSessionManagerValve</code>. (markt)
+ </add>
</changelog>
</subsection>
<subsection name="Other">
diff --git a/webapps/docs/config/valve.xml b/webapps/docs/config/valve.xml
index ea1745d64f..a7324b41a7 100644
--- a/webapps/docs/config/valve.xml
+++ b/webapps/docs/config/valve.xml
@@ -2551,16 +2551,23 @@
</attribute>
<attribute name="crawlerIps" required="false">
- <p>Regular expression (using <code>java.util.regex</code>) that client
- IP is matched against to determine if a request is from a web crawler.
- By default such regular expression is not set.</p>
+ <p>Regular expression (using <code>java.util.regex</code>) that the
+ client IP is matched against to determine if a request is from a web
+ crawler. An IP match alone is sufficient for the request to be
+ considered to be from a web crawler. It is not necessary for any other
+ check to indicate that the request is from a web crawler. By default
+ such regular expression is not set and no IP check is performed.</p>
</attribute>
<attribute name="crawlerUserAgents" required="false">
<p>Regular expression (using <code>java.util.regex</code>) that the
user
agent HTTP request header is matched against to determine if a request
- is from a web crawler. If not set, the default of
- <code>.*[bB]ot.*|.*Yahoo! Slurp.*|.*Feedfetcher-Google.*</code> is
used.</p>
+ is from a web crawler. An user agent match alone is sufficient for the
+ request to be considered to be from a web crawler. It is not necessary
+ for any other check to indicate that the request is from a web crawler.
+ If not set, the default of
+ <code>.*[bB]ot.*|.*Yahoo! Slurp.*|.*Feedfetcher-Google.*</code> is
+ used.</p>
</attribute>
<attribute name="hostAware" required="false">
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