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jelv · 12-05-2008, 23:27

I hope people are not confusing the user-agent string which is passed across by a visitor to a website (be that a browser or a bot) and the user-agent string which search engines look for in robots.txt - they are two totally different things.

Phorm are quite incorrectly looking for googlebot in robots.txt (it will be interesting to see if Google object to this).

I would think that when a user on a Phorm/webwise ISP visits a website the user-agent string will be replicated from the intercepted request from the browser.

12-05-2008, 23:27	#6409
jelv Inactive Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 128	Re: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797] I hope people are not confusing the user-agent string which is passed across by a visitor to a website (be that a browser or a bot) and the user-agent string which search engines look for in robots.txt - they are two totally different things. Phorm are quite incorrectly looking for googlebot in robots.txt (it will be interesting to see if Google object to this). I would think that when a user on a Phorm/webwise ISP visits a website the user-agent string will be replicated from the intercepted request from the browser.