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NemoNemo - 10:01 am on Feb 25, 2009 (gmt 0)


For a couple of days I'm observing msnbots with malformed http headers from 65.55.209.xx which is a legitimate msn ip range. See example below. Note that From header is malformed and is messing up the IMS header as well. Is anybody else seeing this?

Accept: text/html, text/plain, text/xml, application/*, Model/vnd.dwf, drawing/x-dwf
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Connection: Close
Content-Length: 0
From: If-Modified-Since: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 22:42:09 GMT
Host: ***
User-Agent: msnbot/1.1 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)

UPDATE: I tried contacting MS via their Live Search blog contact form. But i got a "User unknown" returned email. Is it me, or do i get the impression that Live Search is falling apart?

[edited by: NemoNemo at 10:25 am (utc) on Feb. 25, 2009]


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