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Difference between mobile agent and web crawlers

Can someone tell me the exact difference between mobile agents and web crawlers?

Thanks in advance.

Solution

  • Mobile Agent is a category of Agent Strings that are ment for Mobile Devices have a lok at

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_user_agents_for_mobile_phones

    Where as web crawlers are Robot programs that are used by different programs like Search engines for indexing pages...

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebCrawler

    Like one of google's crawler Agent String is "DoCoMo/1.0/P502i/c10 (Google CHTML Proxy/1.0)" which belong to "Google (216.239.39.x) proxy server "

    Here is a complete list of Agent strings Including Crawlers,Spiders...

    http://www.user-agents.org/

    Edit As u requested...

    See if someone visits your site and you check his User-Agent. If he is using a Firefox, you will get a string for that, if he is using A mobile Device like an iPhone then u get the user-Agent of the Browser installed on the Mobile. If the visitor is a Crawler then u get the user-Agent String For the same...