- From: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkeslewis@googlemail.com>
- Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 22:10:22 +0000
- To: Irene.Vatton@inrialpes.fr
- CC: Urs Holzer <urs@andonyar.com>, www-amaya@w3.org
Irene Vatton wrote: > Do you need why these servers block all "libwww" or "lwp" requests? > They have problem with pipelining? I'd guess it has more to do with crude anti-spam measures. A lot of spambots apparently have libwww in their UA headers, which makes some people think it's a good idea to block all UAs with libwww in the UA header: http://johannburkard.de/blog/www/spam/The-top-10-spam-bot-user-agents-you-MUST-block-NOW.html -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
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