John G. Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> I have some weird entries in my apache access log file, and I > thought I'd see if anyone else is seeing this. This is not directly > related to Analog, but those who use it may very well have seen such > entries in reports from Analog. The problem is this: We have a > number of weird entries of http GET requests in our Apache logs for > URLs that use the pseudo-protocol wysiwyg:// . This is the > pseudo-protocol that older versions of Netscape use to access > entries in the page-rendered cache. Some of the requests are coming > from India, some from North America. Attempts to contact the admins > for these IP addresses has not been successful. It seems completely > bizarre to me that someone would be doing a GET request on a special > client-side URL that normal lives inside of a client browser. Maybe > someone has written a program that skims through a Netscape history > file and tries to download all pages mentioned there. The Netscape > history file can have such wysiwyg entries. I could imagine such a > program as an attempt to break into someone's browsing history. In > any case, we occasionally get bursts of these requests at 15/second, > and they seem to go over a large part of our site. But it doesn't > look like a spider, either! . The traffic is enough that it has > caused us some grief. Has anyone seen something similar? This is cause by Netscape 4.x, I believe. I don't remember the exact reasons, but it has to do with someone looking at the page from the view source and/or bookmarks. -- Jeremy Wadsack Wadsack-Allen Digital Group +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | This is the analog-help mailing list. To unsubscribe from this | mailing list, go to | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/unsubscribe.html | | List archives are available at | http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/archives/ | http://www.tallylist.com/archives/index.cfm/mlist.7 +------------------------------------------------------------------------
