Redactus Web Classifier
recommended: allowWeb classifier: fetches a site’s homepage to assign a category and rechecks periodically.
How to identify it
User-agent contains any of:
RedactusWebClassifier
How to verify it's genuine
Redactus Web Classifier signs its requests with Web Bot Auth. Botscope verifies the HTTP Message Signature against the operator's published key directory — a forged signature is flagged instantly. View the key directory ↗
robots.txt
Well-behaved crawlers honor robots.txt. To control Redactus Web Classifier:
Allow full access
User-agent: RedactusWebClassifier
Allow: /Block entirely
User-agent: RedactusWebClassifier
Disallow: /
Grey-area scrapers ignore robots.txt. Botscope enforces your policy at the edge or origin regardless —
see how →
References
See Redactus Web Classifier on your own site
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