shpcrw1022.search.sc5.yahoo.com

What is this?

[elklabone]

I've seen this show up in some logs...

Does anyone know what it is? I tried to find some info on the web and came up blank. It hits our site fairly frequently. Is this one of Yahoo's crawlers?

--Mark

[volatilegx]

What is the User Agent?

[wilderness]

Geroge's canufly was down today :(
Had to test a variety of tools to find another.

The Yahoo IP from "shpcrw1022.search.sc5.yahoo.com"
is 66.94.230.37

somebody else can provide the UA ;)

[elklabone]

Well, actually I'm getting this information from a PHP script.

I'm using this command to attempt to retrieve the ISP of certain visitors:

$r_hostname = gethostbyaddr($REMOTE_ADDR);

And it's returning:

Sent from IP: 66.163.170.178
ISP: shpcrw1022.search.sc5.yahoo.com

[jdMorgan]

I don't write php and this may not be quite right, but you might consider adding something like this to your script so that you have access to the user agent name:

$r_useragent = ($HTTP_USER_AGENT);

You should also be able to access the ($HTTP_REFERER) variable (yes it is misspelled) if it exists (sometimes it's undefined) as well as ($HTTP_METHOD), ($REQUEST_URI) and several others if you want to build a php equivalent to the usual NCSA extended logging facility.

Again, I'm no php programmer, and the syntax may not be quite right, but those server variables are usually available to scripts.

Jim

[elklabone]

I guess it's safe to assume that this is one of Yahoo's bots?

--Mark