Java/1.6.0 04 user agent

[aristotle]

Does anyone know if this is a legitimate agent? A search seems to indicate that it's a version of Java. In Latest Visitors, the log entry looks like:

Host: 79.116.30.*
/
Http Code: 200 Date: May 18 11:50:07 Http Version: HTTP/1.1 Size in Bytes: 31712
Referer: -
Agent: Java/1.6.0_04

[edited by: incrediBILL at 9:02 pm (utc) on May 18, 2014]
[edit reason] Obfuscated residential IP [/edit]

[incrediBILL]

Some RSS feed readers, for instance, are written in Java and the authors are either too lazy or ignorant of the user agent to change it.

Could be anything, including a link checker or bookmark checker, hard to know.

I'd be happy if languages refused to access the web unless the UA was set to something other than the default.

[aristotle]

Thanks for the explanation. I was thinking about blocking it, but have decided not to do so unless it starts coming around too often.

[thetrasher]

In my experience, all Java bots from Romania are harvesters.

[keyplyr]

I block ALL occurrences of Java in any UA. For a few years I did allow a handful of beneficial ranges through, but the last couple years I see no need. Anyone using an out-of-the-box GET tool with the generic Java is 403'd.