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Google-Certificates-Bridge

search-engine Google-Certificates-Bridge

Google certificates bridge web crawler

About this crawler

Google-Certificates-Bridge is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Google-Certificates-Bridge in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as search-engine. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Google-Certificates-Bridge traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.

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Technical details

Name
Google-Certificates-Bridge
Pattern
Google-Certificates-Bridge
Tags
search-engine
Added
2020/12/23
Instances
1 known sample(s)

Sample User-Agent strings

Google-Certificates-Bridge

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow Google-Certificates-Bridge:

User-agent: Google-Certificates-Bridge Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Google-Certificates-Bridge [NC] RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

if ($http_user_agent ~* "Google-Certificates-Bridge") { return 403; }
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