Visit from 217.37.196.141

Looking for a path with a space

[olwen]

I've been visited several times by something with the iP address
217.37.196.141

The agent simply says "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows NT)". It looks at my front page, and pages linked from there, but it tries to look for a number of them with a space in the path. (The request reads /%20/region/14/ where it should be /region/14/). It does 30 odd pages in a few seconds. and that's all it does. It's been there 3 times in a few days doing the same.

Does anyone have an explanation?

[oilman]

you can check the ip at RIPE [ripe.net]. It looks like a home grown crawler that someone is running on their BT [btopenworld.com] internet connection. If it's an abusive crawler you could report him or simply block him via htaccess.

[amoore]

I had one yesterday looking for a page that does exist, but with a space in there, too: "example.com/ resume.html"
It was from 195.92.67.72 allegedly running Opera/6.0 (Windows 2000; U) [en] and accepted cookies. no referer, and I can't find a link anywhere like that.