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JayBizzle / Crawler-Detect

🕷 CrawlerDetect is a PHP class for detecting bots/crawlers/spiders via the user agent
https://crawlerdetect.io
MIT License
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Microsft office bot ? #430

Closed malohtie closed 3 years ago

malohtie commented 3 years ago

Hi, i wonder why this is marked as bot ?

Microsoft Office/16.0 (Microsoft Outlook 16.0.13228; Pro), Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; ms-office; MSOffice 16)

if user read emails with microsoft outlook i think it not a bot right ?

gplumb commented 3 years ago

Hi Mohamed

Depends on the Outlook email client. The Android version of Outlook came by way of an acquisition and that product had spiders that would cache content and reformat it - which is arguably bot behaviour.

There was conversation around adding additional classifications to the crawlers, but I think that kind of tailed off.

I'd be open to starting that work on NetCrawlerDetect if there was enough motivation from others to help :-)

G

On Sun, 22 Nov 2020, 10:58 Mohamed Amine EL ATTABI, < notifications@github.com> wrote:

Hi, i wonder why this is marked as bot ?

Microsoft Office/16.0 (Microsoft Outlook 16.0.13228; Pro), Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; ms-office; MSOffice 16)

if user read emails with microsoft outlook i think it not a bot right ?

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JayBizzle commented 3 years ago

Definitely bot behaviour in my view unless you can persuade me otherwise 👍