>before anyone focuses on this, please will robot owners agree a string
>to add to the USER_AGENT so that server admins can do something with it.
>This should be a quick and painless task; it just need doing.
>
>Some suggestions for strings to use..
>
>(robot)
>(automated)
>(follows-robots.txt)
>(server-friendly)
These mean nothing without associated symantics. The last two seem pointless
(-ly political). For robots (using the established autmated recursion
definition) the string "robot" makes more sense
>I'm no expert on the syntax.. reformat as appropriate,
If you want to propose something, at least take the effort to lookup
syntactic restraints, rather than leaving that to mailing-list disscusion.
So much faster and less confusing. Your use of "()" is against the spec,
because they are tspecials (which aren't allowed in tokens).
Section 3.8 of the HTTP/1.1 draft says:
product = token ["/" product-version]
so the string "robot" fits that.
That took the whole of 25 seconds to confirm :-)
>pick your favorite and let us know. Thanks.
I'm not at all convinced this solves any problem, but if it makes you happy...
-- Martijn
Email: m.koster@webcrawler.com
WWW: http://info.webcrawler.com/mak/mak.html