<Jon Haworth wrote>
Does anyone know of a quick and easy way (i.e. not involving a comparison
against a massive list of UAs) of telling whether a visitor is a bot or a
human?
</Jon>

Hi Jon;

I don't know if this will help, but thought I would send it along just in
case.

- Spider Traps - Basic Concepts
- -----------------------------
- Covering the basic concepts behind a modern spider trap, this guide
- discusses the core components you require to create and operate a
- spider trap through to the various techniques you can use to identify
- crawler or spider traffic - such as User-Agent checks, IP address
- checks and more advanced methods such as weighted results plus behavioural
- quirks and analysis.
- http://www.programmersheaven.com/d/click.aspx?ID=A8679


/Sol


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