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voilabot beta 1.2

need to ban, but don't see reques for robots.txt

         

macrost

1:23 pm on Oct 23, 2003 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Ok, this bot is truly stupid. It is asking for things that aren't even on my site! I don't seeing grabbing my robots.txt file, but would this be right? Here is the referring url that it has when it generates 404.
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 95) VoilaBot BETA 1.2 (http://www.voila.com/)
IP of 195.101.94.208

User-agent:VoilaBot BETA 1.2
Disallow:/

Thanks,
Mac

BlueSky

7:28 pm on Oct 23, 2003 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



If it's not asking for robots.txt, then you'll need to ban it via .htaccess instead.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} VoilaBot
RewriteRule .* - [F]

heini

7:46 pm on Oct 23, 2003 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



Would not recommend banning Voila to people interested in French traffic.

WebJoe

9:02 pm on Oct 23, 2003 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



I noticed that misbehaviour in May (see 1897 [webmasterworld.com]).

Too bad they didn't get over the beta stage in more than half a year:

Date: May 2 2003
User agent : Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 95) VoilaBot BETA 1.2 (http://www.voila.com/)
Remote address: 195.101.94.209