About this bot
ForestEngine is a verified scanner associated with ForestEngine and is used for internet measurement.
The primary identifying signal is ForestEngine.
ForestEngine measures publicly reachable Internet services, recording TLS certificates, HTTP headers, service banners, and limited web-page metadata without authentication or exploitation.
Directory status: Active. Identity classification: Verified with High confidence.
robots.txt behavior is not sufficiently established for this identity.
Risk classification: Neutral. Treat User-Agent strings as claims unless corroborated by the verification signals recorded for this entry.
How to identify this bot
- User-agent and crawler identifiers
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ForestEngineMozilla/5.0 (compatible; ForestEngine/1.0; +https://forestengine.net/)
Details
- Kind
- Scanner
- Family
- ForestEngine
- Purpose
- Internet measurement
- Common Use
- measuring public internet services, TLS, response headers, banners and web fingerprints
- Respects robots.txt
- Unknown
Verification
- Identity Type
- Officially documented
- Evidence Method
- Match ForestEngine/1.0 and corroborate the source against the operator’s published scanning network before granting identity-based trust.
- Detection Notes
- Match `ForestEngine` as an identity signal and apply the recorded verification method before granting identity-based trust.
Website controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
# robots.txt behavior is unconfirmed. Use server-side controls if restriction is required.- Apache Rule
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ForestEngine [NC] RewriteRule .* - [F,L]- Nginx Rule
if ($http_user_agent ~* "ForestEngine") { return 403; }