Can someone tell me the exact difference between mobile agents and web crawlers?
Thanks in advance.
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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…