69.114.98.17 - - [10/May/2015:11:36:39 -0400] "GET example.com HTTP/1.1" 200 8587 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 8_0_2 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/600.1.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Mobile/12A405 YahooMobileHomerun/1.0 (iOS Homerun;6.2.1.621314490)(Apple;iPhone4,1;iPhone OS/8.0.2)"
aristotle
8:48 pm on May 10, 2015 (gmt 0)
Are you sure that's a legitimate Yahoo bot?
slipkid
9:02 pm on May 10, 2015 (gmt 0)
No.
I have not seen any part of the below snippet from the UA in the past, so it may well not be a legitimate Yahoo UA. Not versed in Apple-speak. However, it does look peculiar.
root@apollo:~# host 69.114.98.17 17.98.114.69.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer ool-45726211.dyn.optonline.net.
root@apollo:~# host ool-45726211.dyn.optonline.net ool-45726211.dyn.optonline.net has address 69.114.98.17
slipkid
9:30 pm on May 10, 2015 (gmt 0)
No.
I have not seen any part of the below snippet from the UA in the past, so it may well not be a legitimate Yahoo UA. Not versed in Apple-speak. However, it does look peculiar.
69.114.98.17 isn't a Yahoo range, so the UA question becomes slightly irrelevant, unless it's one of those links-from-an-app thinges. Did they really ask for "example.com" as a filename, or was that an artifact of editing-and-posting? Was it a humanoid visit or clearly robotic?
Following various links leads to, among other things, handsetdetection dot com-- a site I have never heard of in my life, and I must say the front page does not inspire confidence. But at least it means that other people have met the UA.
This would be a lot easier to look up if there were not so many games and apps with "Home Run" in the name :(
slipkid
2:54 am on May 11, 2015 (gmt 0)
The request was for a photo that is no longer available.
I thought at the time of posting that it was a robot, but further investigation appears to indicate it was a human. I believe I jumped to a conclusion that it was a Yahoo bot, principally because my site sees 80-100 hits a day from a Yahoo range - 68.180.228.xx.
