5 comments

[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 24.7 ms ] thread
This is awesome!
Classic. I did already see it here on HN a few months ago.
Took me a minute for the penny to drop.

Lawrence Page asking how, in Java, to identify his "web robot" as, presumably, google.

Nice bit of history.

Now I'm interested to know about the "Serious Security Bug" he reported in javascript, which you can see in his profile, but leads nowhere.
Yeah I was wondering about that too. Searched around awhile but the comp.lang.javascript archive doesn't appear to go back that far. I think Google is just keeping the Page post up there for posterity's sake.