request.browser

[customerservice]

I have been tracking website traffic on my site www.grabbagvideo.com:84
and also https://www.grabbagvideo.com for a few weeks now. I am using
the request.browser.crawler property in attempt to track crawlers to
our auditions and casting call site. However whether the request is
recieved at www.grabbagvideo.com or https://www.grabbagvideo.com the
log always returns false. However when I do an dns query on host they
return inkotomi.com or search.yahoo.com or msnbot.msn.com or the google
crawler. But the crawler property always seems to return a false.
using vb.net 2003 on 2003 windows IIS Any suggestions??

 

[Karl Seguin [MVP]]

It uses the data in the browsercaps. In 1.1 (maybe 2.0, not sure) the
crawler information is all blank, so you'd always get false .

The 3rd post in this thread should provide some starting point:
http://forums.asp.net/1013338/ShowPost.aspx

Karl

 

[Customer Service]

Thanks for the email it is appreciated, I looked through the
http://www.grabbagvideo.com:84 machine config an recognized the crawler
filters but was unsure how to configure the browser caps. I am going to
add the entries to the machine.config and hopefully we'll see some
result.

Thanks again,

www.grabbagvideo.com

PS. do you have any idea if this configutation will work over ssl ie
https://www.grabbagvideo.com??? thanks

 

[Customer Service]

Well I updated my machine.config about an hour ago and checked my
logs.... mixed results but progress is progress...

I recieved my first request.browser.crawler = true from
lj2444.inktomisearch.com. requesting
http://grabbagvideo.com:84/members.aspx from ip 68.142.251.54 Good thing

Received a false request for
https://www.grabbagvideo.com/upload/airtimecontest.aspx from
crawl-66-249-66-72.googlebot.com at Ip address 66.249.66.72

so mixed.... could the https://being blickinf headers from the
requesting client??? Also request.browser.hostname and
request.browser.hostaddress return Ip addresses is there anyway to force
the .hostadress to return the FQDN as opposed to the IP address..



Customer Service
http://www.grabbagvideo.com:84

 

[Karl Seguin [MVP]]

Have you looked at Request.UserHostName ? I know sometimes it isn't possible
to get the full name, but maybe you'll have better luck with that.

Karl