Details from trackback bots
I had a logging script running, and had forgotten about it. So…
I have some details on the trackback runs lately. I’ll go through them and see what could be useful.
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The nonsense trackbacks:
[HTTP_ACCEPT] => */*
[HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE] => en-us
[HTTP_USER_AGENT] => Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90)
[REDIRECT_STATUS] => 200
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The maths trackbacker:
[HTTP_ACCEPT] => */*
[HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE] => en-us
[HTTP_USER_AGENT] => Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)
[REDIRECT_STATUS] => 200
Hmmm, very similar headers. And what’s more, this bot has the same headers:
38.118.25.61
Check my previous post about that bot. But at the same time Yahoo! Slurp has the same values for HTTP_ACCEPT, but different for HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING
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The xmix trackbacker:
I had one access to an rss feed of a trackback, and this is what’s unusual about this one:
[HTTP_VIA] => 1.0 SERVER-ISA
[REDIRECT_STATUS] => 200
Those COULD be a feature of the proxy used:
219.149.233.179
It doesn’t pass a HTTP_ACCEPT at all
Another xmix proxy:
208.62.7.133
HTTP_VIA=1.0 ISASRV