Overview
OMIM Litrack is an automated web identity associated with Johns Hopkins University.
It is used for literature tracking for OMIM research workflows.
The documented User-Agent pattern is OMIM-Litrack. User-Agent strings can be copied, so corroborate requests with operator documentation, network ownership, reverse DNS, or other request evidence.
Identity
- User-Agent
OMIM-Litrack- HTTP Agent Examples
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; OMIM-Litrack/1.0; +https://omim.org/static/omim/litrack.txt)- Identity Type
- User Agent
- Evidence Method
- Match the documented User-Agent pattern OMIM-Litrack, then corroborate it with operator documentation, network ownership, reverse DNS, or other request evidence. User-Agent strings alone do not prove identity.
Classification
- Type
- Research
- Kind
- Crawler
- Family
- Johns Hopkins University
- Purpose
- literature-tracking
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- literature tracking for OMIM research workflows
- Detection Notes
- Detect candidate OMIM Litrack traffic using the documented User-Agent pattern OMIM-Litrack. Confirm the identity with supporting evidence before enforcement.
- Respects robots.txt
- Unknown
- Spoofing Risk
- OMIM Litrack can be impersonated because its User-Agent pattern can be copied. Treat the identity as confirmed only when supporting evidence matches.
- Risk
- Neutral
- Recommended Handling
- Depends
Rules and controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
# robots.txt behavior is unconfirmed. Do not rely on this rule without verification.