SSL Labs

scanner SSL Labs$

Qualys SSL Labs scanner testing TLS configuration and certificate grades

About this crawler

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

Block-rate · top 25k sites

0.065%
latest snapshot
2026-06-04
matched key: Cloudflare-SSLDetector
2026-05-012026-06-040.11%

Technical details

Name
SSL Labs
Pattern
SSL Labs$
Tags
scanner
Reference
https://www.qualys.com/solutions/pci-compliance
Added
2026/04/17
Instances
1 known sample(s)

Sample User-Agent strings

SSL Labs

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow SSL Labs:

User-agent: SSL Labs Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} SSL Labs$ [NC] RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

if ($http_user_agent ~* "SSL Labs$") { return 403; }
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