About this bot
UCPCheckerBot is a validator associated with PactMode Ltd and used for ucp-conformance-validation.
The primary identifying User-Agent token is UCPCheckerBot. Representative HTTP request identity: UCPCheckerBot/1.0 (+https://ucpchecker.com/methodology).
Directory status: Active. Identity classification: Verified with High confidence. Identity type: signed agent.
This identity is recorded as honoring robots.txt under UCPCheckerBot. Site-specific access policy should still be evaluated before enforcement.
Risk classification: Neutral. Recommended handling is to evaluate the request context before allowing, rate-limiting, or blocking.
How to identify this bot
- User-agent and crawler identifiers
-
UCPCheckerBotUCPCheckerBot/1.0 (+https://ucpchecker.com/methodology)
Details
- Kind
- Validator
- Family
- UCP Checker
- Purpose
- Ucp conformance validation
- Common Use
- validating Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) and related machine-readable commerce endpoints
- Respects robots.txt
- Yes
Verification
- Identity Type
- Signed agent
- Evidence Method
- Validate cryptographic HTTP message signatures or the record's signed-agent identity when available. Do not treat an arbitrary User-Agent string as proof of identity.
- Detection Notes
- Identify candidate traffic using the signed-agent identity and HTTP message-signature fields. Treat unsigned lookalike requests as unconfirmed.
Website controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
User-agent: UCPCheckerBot Disallow: /- Apache Rule
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} UCPCheckerBot [NC] RewriteRule .* - [F,L]- Nginx Rule
if ($http_user_agent ~* "UCPCheckerBot") { return 403; }