Cameron, Quick answer: In that example, and in the code, it's not the same searchTerm. (i.e.: 'Purebot', 'proxy', 'misuga' 'google'). The example looks for this substring inside the user agent (keeping in mind that the user agent can be faked of course). Bots known to cause problems are tracked and timed differently. Good bots are logged for other reasons. Users deemed to be human are logged. Reasons why that data is needed is another matter. My feeling is that there has to be a better way to do it.
So, Looking over Ajas' link now and cf411 as well. __________________ Derrick Peavy [email protected] 404-786-5036 “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” - Steve Jobs "In economics, the majority is always wrong." - John Kenneth Galbraith _____________________ On Aug 24, 2011, at 5:21 PM, Cameron Childress wrote: > Are you always finding the string in a subset of the "cgi.http_user_agent" > string or is it an exact match? > > -Cameron > > On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Derrick Peavy <[email protected]> > wrote: > Looking for a clever solution to this problem. > > I have some code on a site that checks for known spiders/bots and malicious > user agents. The list of "known" is baout 50 or so long. > > One solution could be: > > (findNoCase('#searchTerm#', cgi.http_user_agent)) OR > (findNoCase('#searchTerm#', cgi.http_user_agent)) OR > (findNoCase('#searchTerm#', cgi.http_user_agent)) OR ... etc and so on, > 50 times. > > Another solution could be: > <cfif findNoCase('#searchTerm#', cgi.http_user_agent)>do > something</cfif> and repeat that complete CFIF 50 times. > > What is a creative way to solve this without so many IF's and minimal > processing? > > Alos, the list of user agents can be either file based or pulled from a DB. > I've done it both ways and I have used both solutions above. Don't see a > difference, but it just seems rather crude. > > __________________ > Derrick Peavy > [email protected] > 404-786-5036 > > “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” - Steve Jobs > "In economics, the majority is always wrong." - John Kenneth Galbraith > _____________________ > > > > > > > -- > Cameron Childress > -- > p: 678.637.5072 > im: cameroncf > facebook | twitter | google+ > >
