Is there a definitive way to tell from the User-Agent whether a request is from a human or a search bot? In one of my modules I throw an error if a parameter is missing and this gets logged in the EventViewer. The problem is that the spiders are requesting these URLS and generating loads of errors - I would rather only log it if it was requested by a non-spider (ie. human). I was hoping for some reg-ex expression or am I going about this the wrong way? Apparently SolPart menu renders differently if it is a spider or a human - any idea what code they are using?

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Thanks,
Rodney
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I've been checking my logs and it seems as though the slurp agent did not adhere to the check:

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo! Slurp; http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/slurp)

 

will hade to look into this!

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