Not sure how to describe this.but

one user who visits my site pulls a whole bunch of stuff

[smiddy]

I have one user who visits my site a few times a day. When he shows up, his browser immediately pulls about 20 pages from the site in 3 seconds.

192.x.x.x - - [23/Feb/2006:09:57:50 -0600] "GET /forums/viewtopic.php?p=23382 HTTP/1.0" 200 18233 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)"
192.x.x.x - - [23/Feb/2006:09:57:50 -0600] "GET /forums/index.php?sid=233hs8ejiijjishdygi HTTP/1.0" 200 16211 "http://www.example.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=23382" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)"

I just showed two lines here, none of them seem related. Some lines pull the faq and others pull the index. It also continues to a lesser degree as he surfs the site. This is the only person that this happens too.

Is it the browser this guy uses? How can I get them to stop?

Seems like it takes bandwidth.

[edited by: jdMorgan at 8:21 pm (utc) on Feb. 23, 2006]
[edit reason] Example.com [/edit]

[inuwolf]

if you'd simply like to ban him without recourse and you're running an Apache server, find the .htaccess file in your root directory and use it to ban his IP. There are several good tutorials out there on how to edit one's .htaccess file.

[timmeh119]

if all the digits of the ip look like: 192.168.1.1 then that's you

[smiddy]

Oops. Had my web address in there earlier...thanks for editing out.

No, I don't want to ban him. I know who he is and wnat him there. It's just that his browser is pulling all of the pages for some reason and that's a lot of bandwidth. Why would it pull 20 pages just by going to one page?

[jdMorgan]

Since the user-agent is MSIE, it's possible he has set the "Synchronize this page on a schedule" option in IE, and so his browser loads all such pages periodically to aid in "offline viewing".

Jim