Administration to edit the Browscap data
kjholla - September 7, 2009 - 21:08
| Project: | Browscap |
| Version: | 6.x-1.x-dev |
| Component: | User interface |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | needs review |
Description
I find that my site is being crawled by agents such as:
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Google Desktop)
bitlybot
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Feedtrace-bot/0.2; bot@feedtrace.com)
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; GurujiBot/1.0; +http://www.guruji.com/en/WebmasterFAQ.html)
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; mxbot/1.0; +http://www.chainn.com/mxbot.html)
These are obviously crawlers and not browsers. However, the browscap data seems to treat these as Browsers.
Would it be possible to add a feature wherein the webmaster can override the browscap data and ask the module to treat specific "Browsers" as crawlers and specific "Crawlers" as browsers?
Regards,
KH
#1
Would be pretty neat to edit this stuff in the interface itself. Currently, all you can do is edit in the MySQL table. The next update, however, you'll loose your changes.
#2
Yeah, we would need an "overrides" table to store this admin-entered-information that gets merged whenever the browscap.ini file iupdate or is used first in PHP or something.
#3
Auto Admin might make providing administration around the Browscap data easy.
#4
Auto Admin unfortunately doesn't provide support for editing BLOB data. Maybe if we extend Auto Admin to support external handling of special fields? Hmmm.