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MocoSpace_63233
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Oct 09, 2007

Redirecting User-Agent Googlebot to new pool or server

Ok - simple problem but I am a newbie. We are getting killed with Googlebot-Mobile spiders. Chewing up all ouer connections. We don't want to stop it but ultimately we may want to rate limit it or som...
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hoolio
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Mar 19, 2008
Actually, I think I misread your request. You want to rewrite the user-agent header to a static value? If so, you can use something like this:


when HTTP_REQUEST {
   if {$something == 1}{
       Replace the User-Agent header (inserting it if it doesn't exist already)
      HTTP::header replace "User-Agent" "x-bot"
   }
}

Aaron