Thanks for the reply Massimo. But my requirement is that the bots and Facebook scrapers should be able to access the page, without authentication. I've seen a few newspaper sites, and online tech journal sites have this functionality, where in Google will have the content indexed, but as a user, I need to be a registered user to access the content. I'm looking for such a functionality on my site.
On Sep 2, 6:32 pm, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote: > In your model you can do something like this: > > if not "Mozilla" in request.env.http_user_agent: raise HTTP(500) > > On Sep 2, 4:19 am, Narendran <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hello all, > > I have a few controller methods (and corres. web pages) that are > > authorized to be viewed only by registered users. But I don't want to > > authenticate search engine bots, Facebook scrapers, and other such > > services. Is there a recommended way of doing this? (like setting auth > > requirements based on user agents, etc.)
