>>>The good ones identify themselves. > >Ok, and how do they do that? The HTTP_User_Agent. Google and Yahoo will show up with their name in the agent. Others will as well. On the other hand, when you see something that looks like IE but doesn't act like a human would, then it's time to think it may be a bot.
>If a series of page requests from the same agent/ip is showing a >different cfid/cftoken per request, then either its a user that does not >support cookies (even session ones) or its a bot. > >Well, actually not really easy to implement ;-/ Are you running CF 7 enterprise or pro? If the former, I've got some code for you for logging that will deal with it nicely. If the latter, I still have some code for you but it's not as 'clean and tight'. >The reason I ask, is that I just implemented some statistics facility on >some of my customers sites. This will count all hits, including those >from robots, so I'd like to be able to discriminates visitors hits from >others. I've been meaning to write an interface to my logs to allow people to download a list of bot agents/ips. Now that the hardware for HoF is moved over I can try to get onto that. (yeh, right). :) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:222678 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
