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Microsoft Not Obeying?

         

Bridge

3:18 pm on Apr 16, 2005 (gmt 0)

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I'm running this script

[webmasterworld.com...]

And have caught some leachers, it's going well.

Though two recent entries are of the form:

The ip address ^207\.68\.146\.40$ has been banned on Thu Apr 14 09:41:29 2005
The associated user agent was msnbot/1.0 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)

The ip address ^207\.68\.146\.47$ has been banned on Sat Apr 16 09:48:07 2005
The associated user agent was msnbot/1.0 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)

The script works by adding a url to the robots.txt as a disallow. I added the disallow a week before implementing the script.

So is Microsoft really ignoring my robots.txt?

Bridge

6:34 pm on Apr 17, 2005 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Following on from this, I was being dumb.

User-agent: *

Sorted the problem... doh..