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why dont you use $HTTP_USER_AGENT?

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Originally posted by saralk
why dont you use $HTTP_USER_AGENT?

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I could do that for current requests, but on the Who's Online page, it shows old requests that were stored in the database, and User-Agents aren't stored, just IPs.

couldnt you add another range, called bot, and it stored if it was a bot, and what bot it was?

Im only asking because i used a program to change my user agent to googlebot's user agent

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Originally posted by saralk
Im only asking because i used a program to change my user agent to googlebot's user agent

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That's another thing I forgot to mention; user-agents are easier to spoof.

WDZ would you like to release the changes you made so that other MyBB users could have it on their boards?

Not really.

It's not finished anyway... I made it in like 15 minutes.

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Originally posted by WDZ
Not really.

It's not finished anyway... I made it in like 15 minutes.

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Go DZ!!! L33t PHP coder.

does google use its own hostname? THat might be helpful.

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Originally posted by saralk
does google use its own hostname? THat might be helpful.

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It's like crawlxx.google.com or proxy.google.com... of course, doing a hostname lookup on every IP can be very slow.

I've made a similar thing, but I don't know if it works good yet. I need some testers.
http://www.mybbmods.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=285&pid=1501#pid1501

WDZ, did you type all of the ip's, or do you use some kind of database? Because all ip's make a very long code.