Agent Java1.3.0 -- Who's Spider Child is This?

..a persistent visitor

[mrfeelingfine]

Hello,

My first post. WM muddling since '95 and trying to finally look at my acces logs.

I keep seeing wab01s14.csuhayward.edu (with the agent being defined as Java1.3.0) crawling my site and getting into all kinds of cgi stuff.

Any idea who this critter is?

I have a

User-agent: *
Disallow: /cgi-local/

but it still keeps hitting.......

[Rugles]

Ya, that one pesters me on occasion. Have no idea who owns it.

[dcheney]

I have a few java applets on my site that read in data files to do their thing. Those data files are usually loaded by "Java" with the version presumably corresponding to the version of Java the client has installed.

I've never seen "Java" load a regular html page though - only the files that the applets require.

P.S. Welcome to WMW!

[jdMorgan]

mrfeelingfine,

Welcome to wmw!

Looks like the California State University at Hayward Ca. to me.
Probably a research project.

You could use .htaccess on Apache to block it if it doesn't respect robots.txt. A site
search here will turn up numerous threads on that subject.

Jim

[mrfeelingfine]

Many thanks! I conjectured it might be a project of sorts.... I wouldn't want to block the whole ip, but maybe there's no choice....