On 2008-09-01, Richard J Kinch wrote:
Ignoramus3863 writes:

I actually have some smarts in the server that can tell a bot from a
human.

Not a bot attempting to look human. Just bots that advertise their
botness, by honest design or flawed hacking.

Yes, a bot trying to look like a human (ie supplying Referer and
browser-like User-Agent, I can still detec that it is a bot).

The way I detect is is that there is a hidden link that humans cannot
see, and cannot click, but bots would follow it. The hidden link is
not permitted by robots.txt, so it catches all non-compliant bots.
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