ChalesLabProspecting
You probably got here because you saw this name in your website's access log.
We are Chale's Lab, a web development studio in San Carlos, Alajuela, Costa Rica. We are running a study of which businesses in the region have a web presence and what state it is in. Your site came up in that list.
What it does
It requests your site's homepage, once, the same way a browser requests it when someone visits. It also requests two files that exist precisely to be requested: robots.txt and sitemap.xml.
From that page we look at things any visitor can see: whether it is built for phones, whether it uses HTTPS, what year the footer says, whether it still loads Flash. Nothing else.
What it does not do
- It does not look for files or folders your site has not linked.
- It does not try passwords, forms, or ports.
- It does not use any vulnerability scanner.
- It does not impersonate other software or hide where it comes from.
That is why it identifies itself by name instead of disguising itself as a browser: so that you can see it, and so that this page can exist.
How to make it stop
Add these two lines to your site's robots.txt and we will stop requesting your page. We always honor it, and we check before every request.
User-agent: ChalesLabProspecting Disallow: /
If you prefer, write to us and we will remove you ourselves. No explanation needed.
Write to us
At brarojasc.dev@gmail.com, with your site's address. We reply.