Bill Moseley wrote:
>
> At 03:29 PM 11/10/00 +0100, Marko van der Puil wrote:
> >What we could do as a community is create spiderlawenforcement.org,
> >a centralized database where we keep track of spiders and how they
> >index our sites.
>
> At this point, I'd just like to figure out how to detect them
> programmatically. It seems easy to spot them as a human looking through
> the logs, but less so with a program. Some spiders fake the user agent.
Randal wrote Stonehenge::Throttle to deal with this - the relevant article is here:
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Cheers,
-Christoph
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