- From: Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 12:40:45 +0200
- To: leon@dcs.shef.ac.uk
- Cc: Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <CAKaEYhKuQHjOJtA=4s4-MP-KwgCAJjo-p_UfM+Gsm2FJS759dA@mail.gmail.com>
On 24 May 2013 12:14, Leon Derczynski <leon@dcs.shef.ac.uk> wrote: > It's been traditional for crawlers to specify an email or web URI in the > "From:" header of any HTTP requests they make; this could readily be used > for an identifying link. > FYI: the "User-Agent" header is sometimes overloaded for his purpose e.g.: "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)" or +http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html Is it possible to do any better? > > All the best, > > > Leon > > > On 24 May 2013 11:53, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote: > >> In most communication protocols it's possible to specify a sender >> >> For example, when I send a letter I can write my address on the back >> >> When I make a phone call, it's possible to have "caller display" to see >> who's calling >> >> When sending an email I can see who the email is from >> >> But on the web, it's not obvious how to do this >> >> Does anyone have a solution to this, or why it may be a bad idea? >> > > > > -- > Leon R A Derczynski > Research Associate, NLP Group > > Department of Computer Science > University of Sheffield > Regent Court, 211 Portobello > Sheffield S1 4DP, UK > > +45 5157 4948 > http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~leon/ >
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