I dont deliver alternate content, I track when they visit which is a different thing all together.
- James -------------------------- W: www.londontown.com @: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Jason Wong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 30 May 2002 13:05 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] Design Problem On Thursday 30 May 2002 19:42, James Holden wrote: > I do it a different way - using IP's can be a bit of a bummer since they > might change but often as not the hostnames dont. > > I detect spiders using the HTTP_USER_AGENT which identifies them either as > say "kitty once hourly", "GoogleBot" or "Lycos" or some such - most of the > decent spiders use the user_agent var to identify themselves and you can > display alternate info dependent on which spider it is. Do note that some (most?) crawlers don't take kindly to this practice of delivering content based on the HTTP_USER_AGENT. If you're found out you'll most likely be removed from the search engine in question. -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.com.hk Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * /* On the whole, I'd rather be in Philadelphia. -- W.C. Fields' epitaph */ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
