Software-Security-Research
Ruhr University CDN security research crawler
About this crawler
Software-Security-Research is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Software-Security-Research in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as scanner, academic. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Software-Security-Research traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
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Technical details
- Name
- Software-Security-Research
- Pattern
Software-Security-Research- Tags
- scanner, academic
- Reference
- https://reverse-proxies-measurements.softsec.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/
- Added
- 2026/04/26
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Software-Security-Research; +https://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Software-Security-Research:
User-agent: Software-Security-Research
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Software-Security-Research [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Software-Security-Research") {
return 403;
}
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