User-Agent

David Banes (dbanes@ozemail.com.au)
Wed, 20 Nov 1996 23:54:32 +1100


Hi,

I'm new to this mailing list, I've been reading for a few days and have
read Martijn's RFC, now and have a question.

If I'm developing a bot and using OLE Automation (initially with
Netscape Navigator) and want to conform to robots.txt (SRE?).

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can handle the User-Agent
part. You'll all be aware that Navigator is going to announce itself as
Mozilla. The only way round this that I can see is to use 'normal'
sockets code to send my own User-Agent header down to the server BEFORE
firing off Navigator. At least I can then get the bot 'registered' with
each server I hit, just in case someone wants to complain :)

Regards

David Banes
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