posted 19 years ago
Are you asking "How can you tell if the client requesting a page is a crawler or a browser?" I don't think you can. A crawler could be written to send headers that perfectly impersonate a given browser. I wonder if you could build the smarts to notice a particular session running up a lot of bandwidth in a short time.
A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of the idea. John Ciardi