Does anyone know a reliable way to check whether the referrer of a HTTP request was a search engine or not?
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Does anyone know a reliable way to check whether the referrer of a HTTP request was a search engine or not?
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Here is a Django middleware object that offers this functionality: http://djangosnippets.org/snippets/197/ . The logic can be extracted to work in a non-Django Python setting.
The method used here is to check the referring url to determine if it matches a given pattern (the presence of a parameter ‘q’, for example).