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Urobot, is this user-agent a browser or bot?

by Jaap roes —

Urobot tries to answer to the question if a user-agent string belongs to a (human) browser or a bot. It does so by examines a user-agent string to see if its looks like it belongs to a legitimate browser. If this is not the case Urobot assumes the user-agent string to of a bot. More about Urobot…

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I meant to link to http://unitedelementsofhate.net/developers/urobot but for some reason RubyFlow wouldn’t allow it… something about the content being not valid, whatever that may mean. If someone could update the link, that would save others an extra click.

Jaap —

For non authenticated users, RubyFlow checks the first link in all posts to see if Ruby or Ruby related topics are mentioned. You don’t explicitly mention Ruby so it didn’t like it. This is an anti-spam technique (and it has worked really well so far :)). I have edited your post to include the proper link now though, thanks!

PeterCooper —

konya chat thanks admin

konya chat —

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