- From: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 23:47:12 -0500 (EST)
- To: "E. Judith Murray" <ejmurray@luventicus.org>
- cc: www-validator@w3.org
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, E. Judith Murray wrote: > Since we add the section bellow to the .htaccess file of our articles > folder, the validator is not working for the page: > http://www.luventicus.org/articles/francais/03JeD005/index.html. > > We dont know how can this affect the robot (W3C_Validator/1.305.2.148 > libwww-perl/5.800). Can you help us to identify the conflicting line? [...] > SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "^WE*" bad_bot ^WE* as a regular expression means any string that starts with W and is followed by zero or more E characters. That will match anything that starts with W. You should remove '*' from all of your regular expressions. Even then, treating any User-Agent starting with "We" as a bad robot seems overly aggressive. -- Liam Quinn
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