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Hi
I would like to know if there is a way to limit certain search engines.
The reason for this is as follows, i have found a bug in my site which only works with the opera search engine, im finding it hard to eliminate this bug plus im really busy at the moment, hence the reason i would like this engine blocked from my site temporaraly or ideally if a person visits the site using opera a message could appear on my index page saying this site does not support opera? or anything along those lines please.

You can create a file named 'robots.txt'
the content of this file like these


User-agent: *
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /class/
Disallow: /data/
Disallow: /images/
Disallow: /include/
Disallow: /js/
Disallow: /templates/

I may have missed something...But...
Opera is a browser.....and not a search engine....

And even with the disallow tags ...an engine may still crawl your site....

Maybe you need to use some js code to check the client browser.
I get some code from google, You can change the code to have a try
<CODE>
<script>
function browserDetect(){//
var sUA = navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase();
var sIE = sUA.indexOf("msie");
var sOpera = sUA.indexOf("opera");
var sMoz = sUA.indexOf("gecko");
if (sOpera != -1) return "opera";
if (sIE != -1){
nIeVer = parseFloat(sUA.substr(sIE + 5));
if (nIeVer >= 6) return "ie6";
else if (nIeVer >= 5.5) return "ie55";
else if (nIeVer >= 5 ) return "ie5";
}
if (sMoz != -1) return "moz";
return "other";
}
alert(browserDetect())
</CODE>
</script>

Originally Posted by Jim Gillum

I may have missed something...But...
Opera is a browser.....and not a search engine....

And even with the disallow tags ...an engine may still crawl your site....

Well spotted Jim.
My mistake I was mean't to say Browser