I would really like to know how MSN robot is identified when he enters a site. I mean, Google does it as Googlebot, and if you programme with php you can identify it with if(strstr($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] ,'Googlebot')){ ... }.

So, how can you identify MSN Bot?
I am going to make the same question with Yahoo in Yahoo Forum.

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msnbot/1.0 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)

Here's a nice list of the lot:

http://www.psychedelix.com/agents.html

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Hi all,
we see that msn not always use the same user agent,msnbot/1.0 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm) because we create a php program for trying to identify it, its works for all other user agents like google, yahoo ecc. but doesnt works for all msn, its seems that msn use other user agents for the regional msn engines? for example msn.fr use an user agent different from msn.com and so on?
it can be possible?

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Is thee any method of recognising googlebot in ASP [IIS Server]

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yes, there are three methods for recognising google bot on iis servers,but I d'like to create a php procedure that can recognise all spiders (like we can do with cloacking)
the only problem that I find is that msn dont use the same user agent for all the regions,so its very difficult to detect

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The code you want is


This way you write what you want MSNBot to see.

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Hi,

I've never seen a SE so good at finding cloaked sites as MSN. I'm read somewhere they're using other agents aside from msnbot, but I can't find the details to back that up! I'm not saying you're cloaking - I'm just saying that you can't rely on a user agent string of "msnbot" to catch all the msn robots.

Cheers,
Paz.

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