Randal L. Schwartz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said, on [991028 10:52]:
>
> The only thing in common with these rude intrusions is a windows-IE
> user agent, along with a new string "DigExt".
>
> Is it a new version of IE that permits heavy rapid download?
>
Yup. Microsoft have had problems before with ill-behaved spidering/robot
code in IE. At one point, I had to block two of their outbound proxies,
since internal betas of the first version of IE that supported the
"channels" feature were... ummm... not exactly polite. And someone at
M$ apparently decided that www.sonymusic.com was a great place to test
their new code. IIRC, they were hammering me with ~250,000 hits/hour.
*sigh* One would think they might have some institutional memory, since
they actually did fix the channel spider.
--
Pete Ehlke
Sys Admin type @ Sony Music entertainment
"Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action."
-- Ian Fleming
