If you do not want to give out IDs to robots, tell the robots not to visit
your servlet in your /robots.txt file. See the Web Robots FAQ at:
http://info.webcrawler.com/mak/projects/robots/faq.html
I does work for most well-behaved search engine robots.
Alexander W. F. Boer
Dept. of Computer Science and Law,
University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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Van: Lance Lavandowska[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Antwoord naar: Lance Lavandowska
Verzonden: Monday, October 11, 1999 3:43 PM
Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Onderwerp: Re: Real People or Search Engines?
Search engines often/usually/sometimes (cover my bases) have a different
UserAgent header than the standard browsers. You could set up a
"pass-through" servlet to log the various UserAgents that are hitting your
site, and continue from there.
Lance Lavandowska
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From: Boemio, Neil (CAP, FGI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sunday, October 10, 1999 11:30 PM
Subject: Real People or Search Engines?
>Is there anyway to tell if my servlet is being called by a real person
>hitting my site or by search engines or robots or whatever.
>
>I ask because my servlet gives out an ID in a cookie if the user doesn't
>have one already. And it seems that I am giving out tons of IDs now!
How
>can I give out IDs to "real people" ONLY?
>
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