Anyone have any idea why I’m suddenly seeing a large number of hits using a browser with the following UA string:
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)
Only happened in the last few days too. Weird.
IE 5.5 Up-Tick?
July 15th, 2008
July 15th, 2008
Anyone have any idea why I’m suddenly seeing a large number of hits using a browser with the following UA string:
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)
Only happened in the last few days too. Weird.
Could be a bot. Can you correlate them to IP addresses, a set of urls on your site or a referrer string?
2008-07-16 @ 9:05 AM
I looked at the URLs and they all seemed like my root page (not a specific page). No referrer string. The IP addresses seemed different, but I didn’t really look at that, maybe I’ll find some time tonight.
2008-07-16 @ 10:09 AM
I have seen this UA too, first time in late June, it fetched just the /plos page. In early July it went another round, fetching everything linked on the /plos page except for the CSS, the feed, and the PNG. It also fetched the root and /style/ directories, I don’t know why.
From then on, it just checks back on /plos. All in all is 7 IP addresses, 28 GETs, none with Referer.
2008-07-18 @ 4:44 AM