UT-Dorkbot

Last updated about 14 hours ago.

Compliant

What is UT-Dorkbot?

About

UT Austin Information Security Office’s Dorkbot service identifies risky pages using public data, verifies the problem and reports it in real-time.

Operator

University of Texas at Austin

Documentationsecurity.utexas.edu

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Did you find UT-Dorkbot/1.0 in your logs?

If you've seen UT-Dorkbot/1.0 in your website logs, it indicates that UT-Dorkbot has been visiting your site. This agent string is one of the known identifiers for this bot.

UT-Dorkbot/1.0

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Expected Behavior

This bot visits websites for various purposes including content analysis, data collection, or automated tasks. Its behavior may vary depending on its specific function and configuration.

Should I Block UT-Dorkbot?

This bot is marked as compliant, meaning it generally respects robots.txt directives and follows good practices. You may choose to allow it if you want your content to be accessible to its services.

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How Do I Block UT-Dorkbot?

You can block this bot or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt file. Use Spyglasses analytics to check whether it's actually following your rules.

User Agent Tokens

UT-DorkbotShould match instances of this bot

robots.txt

# robots.txt
# This should block UT-Dorkbot

User-agent: UT-Dorkbot
Disallow: /

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