LapozzBot?

[keyplyr]

82.131.195.52 - - [26/Dec/2005:21:03:35 -0800] "GET /directory/image.gif HTTP/1.0" 200 10218 "-" "LapozzBot/1.4 (+http://robot.lapozz.com)"

Only other mention of it was a closed thread: [webmasterworld.com...]

Took 4 images from a disallowd directory, nothing else. No request for robots.txt. Couldn't find translation for the referenced webpage - anyone do Hungarian?

[Pfui]

I don't speak Hungarian, but I do speak WHOIS:)

FYI: dnsstuff [dnsstuff.com]
FYI: whois-dot-sc/lapozz.com
(I'd have linked that page, too, but BestBBS kept obfuscating the with-dot domain name.)

Also, this Hungarian bot can ID itself as:

LapozzBot/1.4 (+http://robot.lapozz.com)
LapozzBot/1.4 (+http://robot.lapozz.hu)
Source [internetofficer.com]

The bot appears to crawl for loads of pre-linked categories (or subdomain'd link farms?) at its twin lapozz.com/.hu sites, both credited in footers to ArT deSign Media [adms.eszbonto.hu].

I haven't seen it for six weeks or so. The last time it came through, it just sent one (thwarted) HEAD request for an existing file -- no referrer, no attempt to get robots.txt first. (Boo-hiss)

UA: "LapozzBot/1.4 (+http://robot.lapozz.hu)"
IP: 82.131.195.52

So there you go. HTH and all that.
(My procrastinating c'est finis:)

[keyplyr]

2 hours after I blocked it, it came back and (unsuccessfully) attempted to harvest thousands of image files from disallowed directories. Must an image search at one of those directories, or one in the making.

[keyplyr]

Oh - and thanks for the leg work Pfui :)