Cloaked robot from Ask.com

No robots.txt, requests and malformed URLs

[jdMorgan]

Log sample:

65.214.45.100 - - [25/Sep/2006:21:21:37 -0400] "GET /mypage1.html%09 HTTP/1.0" 403 666 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible: MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 4.0)"

65.214.45.100 - - [26/Sep/2006:21:33:04 -0400] "GET /mypage2.html%09%20192.168.131.187 HTTP/1.0" 403 666 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible: MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 4.0)"

Reverse DNS points to crawler100.ask.com via UUNET.

I think they'd better get Jeeves back on retainer; Those URL-paths are malformed. The second one was /mypage2.html<tab><space>my site's IP address. Maybe this is intended as a 404-check, but that ain't the way to do it proper, guv'nah.

Very bad form on this one, gentlemen...

Jim

[wilderness]

Jim,
I've been getting them for a while.

The majority of mine are pages and images.

The visits are not often and in most instances a single page, however I recall instances where it was multiple pages (with images).

[keyplyr]

LOL - your forbidden page weighs 666.

[jdMorgan]

Yes, intentional... :)

Jim

[bull]

add IP range: 65.119.214.*

with UAs
Wget/1.8.1
or
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 4.0)