User-Agent: CK-Netsurfer

Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2006 7:58 pm

I'm working on a friend's site, he just has a small issue

The harvest blocker blocks "tsurf", but it also blocks "CK-Netsurfer"
He says "CK-Netsurfer" is a valid user-agent

So is there any way we can differentiate the two?

(I haven't seen CK-Netsurfer, but it looks to be something with Netscape/7.0)

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as far as i could find yes, you can find it in most statistics but it almost looks like its new.
its indeed Netscape/7.0 (CK-Netsurfer) but not many search results with google.
its in the stats but i couldnt find any discussion about it.

Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 5:41 am

I quess the only solution would be to remove the word surf from the blocker there is also a surfbot and then with different rules directly through .htaccess.

Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 12:05 pm

So what is "tsurf" supposed to block? Then we could figure out a better string to block it with

Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 5:10 pm

With tsurf you can do different things (see also "Gocad (TSurf)" I don´t know if this is also used for website hacking.Possible it´s used to tune your browser. I found a lot of search results for tsurf, but not the exactly answer to your question. I don´t believe it´s an email harvester. [ Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! ]