Google preview

[lucy24]

Has this one been posted somewhere? If so, I can't find it.

Former google preview:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.4 (KHTML, like Gecko; Google Web Preview) Chrome/22.0.1229 Safari/537.4

latest google preview (differences highlighted):
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; Google Web Preview) Chrome/27.0.1453 Safari/537.36

As always, that's Preview's own UA, not the human visitor.

Source: 66.249.81.72. The X-Forwarded-For header (google sends one, other previews generally don't) agreed with an immediately preceding image search.

:: now off to fine-tune log-processing script ::

[wilderness]

hey lucy,
Don't know how this thread slipped through the cracks.

There's been multiple threads related to G-Preview and discussed same, which I'm sure your aware of.

These UA's would get caught by two key-words in my UA denies.

Personally, I deny as many previews as possible. Others may have different preferences.

[lucy24]

This isn't about Preview as such, but the specific UA.

The weird followup is that, while my notes had the .4 and Chrome/22 version, my log-processing script already said .36 and Chrome/27 ... so I can't for the life of me figure out why the current UA wasn't getting dealt with appropriately.

[keyplyr]

Even blocked, both the Bing Preview and the Google Preview serve a purpose for me. They show me where people are hot-linking to my files.

[lucy24]

Heh, same here.

I wish they had different UAs for Search Preview-- meaning humans who might possibly be interested in your site-- and gwt Preview-- meaning "Yes, thank you, I'm a tiny site and I already know what my own pages look like".