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Add msnbot for results with "Fetch as bingbot"

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript
Domain
backend

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Search the repository for the existing bingbot user-agent handling and the related examples or libraries mentioned in the issue. Confirm how crawler user agents are matched, then verify that msnbot requests are treated like bingbot requests and trigger prerendering.

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Description

I am using the Fetch as bingbot feature (https://www.bing.com/webmaster/diagnostics/fetch/bingbot) for testing my pages, and it didn't hit prerender.

After searching what useragent they use, I found this in my logs:

[06/Dec/2019:11:16:50 +0100] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 1342 "-" "msnbot/2.0b (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)"

Maybe we can update all the list of user agent of all the examples/libraries, and add msnbot to the list ?

It may be a bug on their side also. After some research, an article from 2010

Microsoft To Replace MSNBot With BingBot October 1, 2010

Whatever if it is their mistake or not, I guess it will not hurt to add msnbot. I will do that on our nginx config, I let you handle the decision to add it or not to all the repo too :)

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