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Anyone have any idea what it is? IP traces back to dingle.lightspeedsystems.com and I cannot make heads or tails of it.
Look about half-way down the page at what the default user agent is!
[edited by: littleman at 11:08 pm (utc) on Dec. 6, 2002]
[edit reason] chopped link [/edit]
Don't know why someone would want to run this on my site, but it found itself banned. It's entirely possible that someone incorporated this bit of script in something larger... and deliberately left these identifiers as a joke.
Thanks for the link!
Thanks
I've got it too, don't know a word of PERL, could someone please explain, what is this thing?
The above link is broken right now, but if I recall, this is from an example in the Perl Cookbook from O'Reilly Press.
The example is a perl script to read the content of a web page. Perl allows you to write a program that pretends to be a web browser, controlling even the User Agent that you appear to be. It's an easy way to write a spider.
The 'Schmozilla' User Agent and wizard.yellowbrick.oz referer is verbatim from the example.
Quite simply, someone took this example used it to spider your site. There's no way to know what they're doing with it, though, unless it's obvious from the website at the domain for that IP.
