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LWP::Simple
Perl LWP::Simple HTTP library
About this crawler
LWP::Simple is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern LWP::Simple\/ in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as http-library. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block LWP::Simple traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.26%
Technical details
- Name
- LWP::Simple
- Pattern
LWP::Simple\/- Tags
- http-library
- Added
- 2026/05/09
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
LWP::Simple/5.805
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow LWP::Simple:
User-agent: LWP::Simple
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} LWP::Simple\/ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "LWP::Simple\\/") {
return 403;
}
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