Discourse Forum Onebox

[keyplyr]

UA: Discourse Forum Onebox v1.9.0.beta17
Protocol: HTTP/1.1
Robots.txt: No
Host: forum.guitarlogic.org
Parent: linode.com
45.79.0.0 - 45.79.255.255
45.79.0.0/16

This host also tried with the UA: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3029.110 Safari/537.36

[lucy24]

Is this the actual robot used by the Discourse system*, and if so, does the specified host really use Discourse?


* If I remember correctly: more annoying than Disqus, marginally less so than Intense Debate.

[keyplyr]

I can only speculate. Either the UA is fake (the other UA's from that host looked & behaved like a browser) or since this is a media host (forum.guitarlogic.org ) with it's own assigned IP range, then they may be employing the Onebox device in some of their crawl/validation/capture applications. Regardless they were blocked because of their Parent*.


*See... it is always the parent's fault