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HttpCapabilitiesBase.Crawler Property

.NET Framework 4

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Gets a value indicating whether the browser is a search engine Web crawler.

Namespace: System.Web.Configuration
Assembly: System.Web (in System.Web.dll)

Syntax

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public bool Crawler { get; }

Property Value

Type: System.Boolean
true if the browser is a search engine; otherwise, false. The default is false.

Examples

The following code example shows how to determine whether the client is a search engine Web crawler.

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<%@ page language="C#"%>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<script runat="server">
    void Page_Load(Object Sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        CheckBrowserCaps();
    }

    void CheckBrowserCaps()
    {
        String labelText = "";
        System.Web.HttpBrowserCapabilities myBrowserCaps = Request.Browser;
        if (((System.Web.Configuration.HttpCapabilitiesBase)myBrowserCaps).Crawler)
        {
            labelText = "Browser is a search engine.";
        }
        else
        {
            labelText = "Browser is not a search engine.";
        }

        Label1.Text = labelText;
    }
</script>

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head>
    <title>Browser Capabilities Sample</title>
</head>
<body>
    <form runat="server" id="form1">
        <div>
            Browser Capabilities:
            <p/><asp:Label ID="Label1" Runat="server" />
        </div>
    </form>
</body>
</html>

Version Information

.NET Framework

Supported in: 4, 3.5, 3.0, 2.0

Platforms

Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1 or later, Windows XP SP3, Windows XP SP2 x64 Edition, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core supported with SP1 or later), Windows Server 2003 SP2

The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.

Reference

HttpCapabilitiesBase Class

System.Web.Configuration Namespace

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