| what the ggpht?
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lucy24
msg:4503852 | 6:32 am on Oct 4, 2012 (gmt 0) |
74.125.186.44 - - [03/Oct/2012:16:20:08 -0700] "GET /hovercraft/words/tutiktut.jpg HTTP/1.1" 200 27456 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.0.7) Gecko/2009021910 Firefox/3.0.7 (via ggpht.com)"
And that was all she wrote.
Assiduous g##ing tells me that ggpht.com has something to do with images. This I think I could have worked out on my own. It also points me to this longago thread [webmasterworld.com], though I'm ggphted if I can figure out why.*
I am similarly ggphted if I can see why a search for the above keyword does not bring up my site-- a fact that worried me so much, I had to search for a unique phrase from the same page to reassure myself that I still exist. But that's a different forum.
* But I don't mind, because the thread offers the line
| i can only conclude that most people who steal images are stupid. |
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illustrating once again that some things never change. Myspace and its kin may come and go, but hotlinkers will always be with us.
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dstiles
msg:4504214 | 9:06 pm on Oct 4, 2012 (gmt 0) |
As noted before, I have the whole of 125 blocked as being a "bad neighbourhood". Firefox 3.0 would have blown it anyway, of course. :)
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lucy24
msg:4504245 | 10:15 pm on Oct 4, 2012 (gmt 0) |
| Firefox 3.0 would have blown it anyway, of course. |
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Most of my blocks-- except for the top-level CIDR list-- are constrained to page requests so the server doesn't have to check over and over again when someone's reading a picture book with 50 separate image files. This works handsomely 99% of the time. Here of course is the other 1%. The absence of a referer means that it also bypassed the hotlink block.
Apart from the faviconbot, most of my 74.125. is Translate which in my case tends to be legitimate.
:: detour to re-check notes ::
Preview; Wireless Transcoder; urlresolver; faviconbot (no UA); Rich Snippets
Someone hereabouts once figured out what urlresolver is, but I forget. The favicon and Rich Snippets are, I think, used only by GWT.
Still waiting to figure out what ggpht is ;) The "ggpht.com" name belongs to google but the site doesn't seem to exist.
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keyplyr
msg:4504295 | 2:59 am on Oct 5, 2012 (gmt 0) |
Someone hereabouts once figured out what urlresolver is |
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It's one of several url resolvers :)
e.g. It takes a condensed url, example: bit.ly/lChNA, and resolves it to the original url www.webmasterworld .
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