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[nycphp-talk] Robot Sessions

Adam Maccabee Trachtenberg adam at trachtenberg.com
Mon Mar 29 21:47:33 EST 2004


On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Chris Shiflett wrote:

> However, you can identify the major ones, because they pass a consistent
> User-Agent identifying themselves. Here are some agents from my access
> logs that look like robots to me (some are truncated):
>
> FeedDemon/1.10 RC 1 (http://www.bradsoft.com/; Microsoft Wind
> FeedDemon/1.0 (http://www.bradsoft.com/; Microsoft Windows XP
> NetNewsWire/1.0.5 (Mac OS X; Lite; http://ranchero.com/netnew
> Bloglines/2.0 (http://www.bloglines.com; 6 subscribers)
> FOSS (Free and Open Source) Planet Planet/0.2 http://www.plan
> NewsGator/2.0 (http://www.newsgator.com; Microsoft Windows NT
> Radio UserLand/8.0.8 (MacOS)
> FeedOnFeeds/0.1 (+http://minutillo.com/steve/feedonfeeds/)

FWIW, these ones are actually RSS aggregators instead of
spiders. They're still robots, but they probably won't crawl your
site, if that's what you care about w/r/t sessions.

-adam

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