We keep our own page view stats in a database and want to avoid counting page views by visiting spyders. What's a good method for recognizing spyders without throwing away valid visitor page views?
Something using cgi.user_agent, no doubt, but how can we keep a fairly comprehensive list up to date, and do we try to do exact string matches, partial matches, or what? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:318036 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
