What are those guys at Slurp! China on?

SlurpConfirm404 URL oddities

[AlexK]

A selection of 404-hits from my access log; check out the filenames:

202.160.183.236 - - [03/Feb/2006:01:26:23 +0000] "GET /SlurpConfirm404/MadonnaCiconne.htm
202.160.183.235 - - [03/Feb/2006:01:24:52 +0000] "GET /SlurpConfirm404/advertisers/style.htm
202.160.183.234 - - [03/Feb/2006:01:21:52 +0000] "GET /SlurpConfirm404/om_nrk_hedmark/bston/spillelister.htm
202.160.183.245 - - [03/Feb/2006:01:20:25 +0000] "GET /SlurpConfirm404/OneillHistory/favicon.htm
202.160.183.236 - - [06/Feb/2006:16:44:04 +0000] "GET /SlurpConfirm404/FabienneDeVries.htm
202.160.183.236 - - [06/Feb/2006:16:42:33 +0000] "GET /SlurpConfirm404/MessyQuake/style.htm
202.160.183.236 - - [06/Feb/2006:16:50:17 +0000] "GET /SlurpConfirm404/ELEVES.htm
202.160.183.245 - - [03/Feb/2006:01:23:22 +0000] "GET /SlurpConfirm404/gabon/bston/tcu.htm
202.160.183.236 - - [06/Feb/2006:16:51:46 +0000] "GET /SlurpConfirm404/linksfr/bston/censes94-1.stats.htm
202.160.183.245 - - [03/Feb/2006:01:18:52 +0000] "GET /SlurpConfirm404.htm HTTP/1.0" 404 596
"-" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Yahoo! Slurp China; [misc.yahoo.com.cn...] In:997 Out:578:57pct.

[wilderness]

There's an old thread on this someplace.

Most everybody thinks they have implemented a good method of verifying 404's and letting websmasters know in the process that is what the bot is doing.

[lammert]

Yahoo has this explanation [help.yahoo.com] in their Yahoo! Help.