Re: A bad agent?

Rob Hartill (robh@imdb.com)
Fri, 27 Sep 1996 13:00:14 +0100 (BST)


Nick Dearnaley wrote:

>Dear Rob,
>
> I can see that a common "User Agent: Agent" would help, but how
>could you tell them apart?

I wouldn't want to. I could just block the lot from areas of the server
that I don't want them (accidentally or otherwise) trampling over.

I want my server to be unfriendly to unfriendly agents, robot and busted
proxy servers from Microsoft. Anything that follows my robots.txt won't
be affected.