Google?

Not sure.

[wilderness]

This image was NOT relative to the page that was crawled in the google visit immediately preceding or following.
The time frame was not normal either due to yesterdays outage.
Likley somebody posing as google.

64.68.87.59 - - [15/Aug/2003:05:12:58 -0700] "GET /myfolder/mysub//myimage.jpg HTTP/1.0" 403 - "-" "-"

Cable & Wireless SC3-1 (NET-64-68-64-0-1)
64.68.64.0 - 64.68.95.255
Google Inc. EC12-1-GOOGLE (NET-64-68-80-0-1)
64.68.80.0 - 64.68.87.255

[claus]

hmm.. that's interesting... it would imply a fake Google IP. Another thread mentioned recent IP-spoofing.. found it, you were there too :)

[webmasterworld.com...]

The G machine behind the IP would then have to be open somehow so it could be used as proxy i guess. Well, it could also be some person at G getting the image for some weird reason (and using an UA block of some kind)... a sole request of an image seems more like human behavior... was the pic in any way interesting or did it have an interesting filename (ie. not a "blank_1x1_image.jpg" or so)?

/claus

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added: This part is interesting:

>> mysub//myimage

It seems like a dysfunctional user-agent... double backslashes wouldn't normally be found in paths, and i guess they're not supposed to be there either...and then there's the "1.0" protocol... it seems more like a software error somewhere (on a G machine)

[wilderness]

was the pic in any way interesting

ALL my images are interesting ;)
the majority of my images do not have names. Just numbers.

the double slash was a typo by me in renaming folders.

The photo is a scanned image of a younger Jimmy Cruise.