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wilderness
msg:4535382 | 11:42 pm on Jan 11, 2013 (gmt 0) |
I do realize there is another forum, for this topic [webmasterworld.com].
Does anybody see unusual requests for this file?
A legitimate SE IMO would be a valid request.
A solitary request by a standard users IP would NOT be a valid request.
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blend27
msg:4535449 | 8:56 am on Jan 12, 2013 (gmt 0) |
Yesterday got one from 131.253.38.67 for BingSiteAuth.xml, never had that file to begin with.
I usually get, a dozen or so requests a month, referrals from goog/bing for "add+exchange link" from IP ranges in India & Vietnam(which are 403d anyhow) followed by sitemap.xml requests from the same IPs.
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lucy24
msg:4535569 | 12:38 am on Jan 13, 2013 (gmt 0) |
| A solitary request by a standard users IP would NOT be a valid request. |
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Depends whether "standard user" means someone who has already set foot on the site and established themselves as human. Heck, I once got a request for "humans.txt" ;)
| Yesterday got one from 131.253.38.67 for BingSiteAuth.xml |
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That's the standard Bing wmt file, like the google or yandex versions with all the numbers, from the now-standard IP for this request. I don't know when exactly they transferred this task to the 131.253 range. Somewhere between early June and early November, based on before-and-after around a big hole in my logs.
Much of the worry goes away when you add to htaccess something like
<FilesMatch "\.(js|txt|xml|php)$">
Header set X-Robots-Tag "noindex"
</FilesMatch>
(adjusted for any non-page extensions you may happen to use) because really I'm more worried about google indexing my robots.txt than about malign robots reading it :)
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