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Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 19:53:01 -0400
From: Alec Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Rob Hartill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mod_log-any/500: single access creates multiple log entries

Upon further investigation, I believe you are right on target, thank you.

...
alec


Rob Hartill wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Alec Berry wrote:
> 
> > The files are always html (.html) files. There are no animations or fancy
> > anything on the pages where this comes up, and only the html file appears
> > in the log multiple times.
> > I could send you a snippet from my logs, if that might help.
> > I have a suspicion this is due to ATT's proxy servers, since the browser
> > type is always:
> > "Mozilla/1.22ATT (Windows; U; 16bit)", and the remote address is an
> > "att.net" address. It happened again last night, the following was in my
> > logs 60 times in the span of a minute:
> >
> > 207.146.246.18 - - [27/Apr/1997:23:41:08 -0400] "GET /links/ HTTP/1.0"
> > 200 - "-" "Mozilla/1.22ATT (Windows; U; 16bit)"
> >
> > Then, two minutes later, the same thing about 15 more times in about a 10
> > second span.
> 
> Might just be someone calling Netscape from 'remote control' to download
> pages offline.
> 
> There are hundreds of poorly written page fetchers out there. Many of
> them operate out of search engine sites but there's a growing trend
> for Joe Average to have his own network trasher in his bedroom.
> 
> --
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