Lynx reported as Perl tool

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#794 Lynx reported as Perl tool

Milestone: 6.95

Status: open

Owner: nobody

Labels: Not working features (274)

Priority: 5

Updated: 2014-11-16

Created: 2010-04-19

Creator: Thomas Wiegner

Private: No

Lynx entries in my apache logfile are reported as "Perl tool"

User agent: "Lynx/2.8.7rel.1 libwww-FM/2.14 SSL-MM/1.4.1 OpenSSL/0.9.8k"

If I comment out the libwww related entries in robots.pm it works correctly.

Awstats version used: Advanced Web Statistics 6.95 (build 1.943)

Discussion

Pete Houston - 2014-11-16

This behaviour is still evident for me in version 7.3.

I have found that by anchoring the pattern in @RobotsSearchIDOrder_list2 to the start of the regex (ie. using '^libwww') then Lynx is correctly reported and genuine vanilla libwww user agents are still identified as bots.

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