Mercator-2.0

Does anyone know what Mercator-2.0 is?

[davros]

Hi, My site gets hit quite often by different source IP's by a browser/client Mercator-2.0 most recently by: 204.123.28.31
which resolves to: atrax1.pa-x.dec.com (204.123.28.31) unreachable domain..

Anyone know what this is? It's identified as a "download agent" on a few resource pages with links to addresses that no longer seem to exist. Just wondering if someone or something is trying to scarf my content.

Randall J. Berry

[edited by: engine at 4:59 pm (utc) on July 17, 2002]
[edit reason] no sigs please - thanks. [/edit]

[fiestagirl]

I believe that spider belongs to Alta Vista.

Some info here. [http]

[engine]

Davros, welcome to WebmasterWorld.

This is a spider from AV [webmasterworld.com]

[davros]

Thanks for the speedy replies..

That answers my questions..

[JohnHouston]

Mercator belongs to Compaq...or is it HP or is it Digital Equipemt? Who knows these days!! At any rate, check out this URL for info.
[research.compaq.com...]