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OrgProbe again

         

lucy24

12:08 am on Feb 18, 2016 (gmt 0)

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What do you mean, February of last year [webmasterworld.com] is "too old" for resuming the discussion?

I've been studying headers with a view to massively reducing my htaccess file*, and inevitably OrgProbe came up. Here's the part I can't figure out, and maybe someone else will know:

If the purpose of OrgProbe is to find out whether your site is blocked by an assortment of ISPs, does it make any difference whether you block them or not? (Or "poke a hole for them or not", depending on perspective.) Aren't they just testing whether the request gets made in the first place?


* It's early days yet, but a 90-95% reduction in filesize does not look impossible.

keyplyr

9:49 pm on Feb 20, 2016 (gmt 0)

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[webmasterworld.com...]

So I've had the UA blocked since I posted on Feb 19, 2015. I just did the test and the results were displayed. So it seems blocking the UA has no effect on the report at least.

lucy24

11:53 pm on Feb 20, 2016 (gmt 0)

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That was kinda my impression too. If a given IP is blocked by a given ISP, they simply won't make the request in the first place; they're not concerned with what response the request gets.

Granted, they could perfectly well make a request for robots.txt instead of /, and then everyone would be happy. (Matter of fact, I do occasionally find a robots.txt request not followed by anything else. And they can't all be looking for sites that thoughtfully give the exact name of their admin directory so tomorrow's malign robot knows what to ask for and can cut to the chase.)

Whee! One more robot I don't have to poke a hole for.

keyplyr

3:27 am on Feb 21, 2016 (gmt 0)

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* It's early days yet, but a 90-95% reduction in filesize does not look impossible.

Filesize Reduction - The Musical!

lucy24

5:55 am on Feb 21, 2016 (gmt 0)

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Go! ye robots, go to glory
Though ye die in combat gory!

keyplyr

7:12 am on Feb 21, 2016 (gmt 0)

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Isn't that from Les Misérobots?