Spidering pages that do not exist

[RammsteinNicCage]

I just checked my logs and saw that Jeeves is spidering a whole bunch of pages that don't exist and never existed. What it's doing is taking a valid file name and adding a space and a 1 to it, something like "/filename.html 1" but it also took "/ 4" and "/ 19" which don't exist at all. It had no problem getting my robots.txt file though. Any reason why this would happen?

Jennifer

[caine]

Hi Jennifer,

Is it definetly AJ or is teoma's crawlers, or could it be bogus!

[RammsteinNicCage]

Unfortunately, this thing has dropped out of my error log, but if I see it again, I'll be sure to check the IP. Thanks for the suggestion.

Jennifer

[fiestagirl]

It was AJ for sure. I saw this in the logs this week also. I've seen almost every engine do this at one time or another. My conclusion is that they are testing 404s.

[RammsteinNicCage]

Hmm, why would they want to test 404's?

Jennifer

[rytis]

We get lots of this kind "GET /example.html%201 HTTP/1.0", agent "Mozilla/2.0 (compatible; Ask Jeeves/Teoma)", IP points to UUnet.