PHP googlebot detector, does this code work?

"Dave Stiles" <newsdfn.TakeThisOut@brisindex.co.uk> wrote in message
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 > In article <ng09gvg4bsogkg212n5q04ato1r248jtli.TakeThisOut@4ax.com>,
 > dtfa@****nospm****insightbb.com (MeNotHome) wrote:
 >
  > > I found this code on phphacks.com
  > >
<font color=green>  > > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.phphacks.com/googlebot.php</font" target="_blank">http://www.phphacks.com/googlebot.php</font</a>>
  > >
  > > Does this really detect the freshie and deep bots ?
 >
 > It detects the word googlebot in the User-Agent (U-A) field. Change the
word (they
 > suggest to "mozilla") and it will detect any part or complete U-A you care
to look for.
 > There is no discrimination between the type of googlebot as far as I can
see although it's
 > easy enough to add the complete U-A field into the message.
 >
 > What it doesn't give are all the Google IPs that visit you anonymously and
that have no
 > U-A or RDNS.
 >

Looks like a pretty terrible system .. when Google comes in, it can be a lot
.... 30,000 emails in the morning .. aaarrrgghh.

<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/ying20000602.php3?print_mode=1" target="_blank">http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/ying20000602.php3?print_mode=1</a> seems a
much better system, it's the one I use and allows me to see who is in the
site at a particular moment. Alternatively, run the previous code, but log
the results to a MySQL table.<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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In article <LwbNa.935$Gh5.6584367@news-text.cableinet.net>,
newsprofile DeleteThis @hotmail.com (elyob) wrote:

 > Looks like a pretty terrible system
 > .. when Google comes in, it can be a lot
 > ... 30,000 emails in the morning .. aaarrrgghh.

I agree about the script. Not something I would use, at least without making it one email
per IP per day and probably not even then.

A "current view" program is interesting but when one has dozens of sites to maintain it's
not really a starter. It's a bit stable door, but I find analyzing the logs periodically is
usually adequate.

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