Never seen this from Google before...

What the heck is going on?

[guillermo5000]

Here it is:

216.239.39.5 - - [06/Oct/2003:00:11:40 -0400] "GET /gbook.php HTTP/1.0" 200 95343 "-" "Sanyo-SCP4700/1.1 UP.Browser/4.1.24f UP.Link/5.0.2.9 (Google WAP Proxy/1.0)"

Thanks all!

[jdMorgan]

It's a request from a mobile phone or a WAP-enabled pocket computer. Google translates your HTML into WAP for these devices.

Those of you who are using a spider trap should make provisions to NOT ban this type of user-agent if it fetches pages disallowed in robots.txt - These devices tend to "prefetch" pages and resources, and since they are not robots, they don't pay attention to robots.txt.

Others are AvantGo and Blazer.

These user-agents should be redirected to a "safe" dummy file, or to a page that requires a username/password login to keep them out of trouble.

Jim

[amznVibe]

If you have Opera handy (only major browser that does WAP) you can try it yourself [wap.google.com...]

(interestingly enough, Brett seems to block the wap proxy - not sure if that's a good idea or bad)