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On 10/30/04 a spider began submitting a web form I have on my site. It is a very basic form, no javascript vaidation, just a few text, radio and checkbox inputs and a standard submit button. The contents of the form are then emailed to me. This spider submitted the form repeatedly for about 3 hours sending me hundreds of messages until I disabled the form upon receiving all that mail.
So, my question is: Is this a legitimate spider from yahoo?
IP: 202.46.19.93
DNS: global-pix1.bangalore.corp.yahoo.com
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0+(compatible;+Konqueror/3.2;+FreeBSD)+(KHTML,+like+Gecko)
It doesn't seem like one to me because of it's behaivor and it's user agent.
Anyone know where to complain about this behavior to yahoo at?
I have never seen a yahoo bot that actually submits forms (post method). The bot started cralling my site on 10/29 and got the robots.txt first thing. It then proceeded to spider the site as a normal bot would. However, it did request a few pages repeatedly in a row and requested a few pages that have been gone for a while. I don't beleive the deleted pages that it requested are linked to anywhere on my site. It spidered me for almost a day before it started submitting this form repeatedly. When I disabled the form, it stopped. I then banned that IP from the site and it has since come back 4 times but not spidered any further.
Anyone ever see this spider before?
Thanks in advance.
Jim
