JoBo/1.3

"offline browser"

[bull]

63.151.138.201 - - [05/Dec/2002:09:45:53 +0100] "GET /odp/ HTTP/1.1" 200 2126 www.me.net "-" "JoBo/1.3 (http://www.matuschek.net/jobo.html)" "-"

quote from the page mentioned:

JoBo is a simple program to download complete websites to your local computer.

well, another one to block...

Internally it is basically a web spider. The main advantage to other download tools is that it can automatically fill out forms

spider --> no robots.txt? forms --> means also email forms?

-bull

[carfac]

Bull:

Thanks for the info!

dave

[jdMorgan]

bull,

The funny thing is, I think this is a backfired "viral marketing" attempt. But instead of buying, we're banning. I was going to post about it, but you beat me to it!

This UA requested the index page twice (and nothing else) from one of my sites this morning, so I think it's purpose was simply to leave the log entry. The IP address was the same one that hit your site.

Jim

[carfac]

Hi:

I found a company that was selling a bot that put a clients URL in the referer to make curious webmasters go to their page... an interesting spin on ads. I banned them by IP address...

dave