PHPot Verispider
Deception bot detection network identifying malicious crawlers
About this crawler
PHPot Verispider is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern PHPot Verispider in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as scanner. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block PHPot Verispider traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.065%
Technical details
- Name
- PHPot Verispider
- Pattern
PHPot Verispider- Tags
- scanner
- Reference
- https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots/directory/project-honeypot/www.projecthoneypot.org.
- Added
- 2026/04/17
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
PHPot Verispider v0.1 - http://www.projecthoneypot.org/
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow PHPot Verispider:
User-agent: PHPot Verispider
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} PHPot Verispider [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "PHPot Verispider") {
return 403;
}
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