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lucy24

10:08 pm on Jan 27, 2019 (gmt 0)

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UA: URLTester/1 CFNetwork/974.1 Darwin/18.0.0 (x86_64)
IP: 86.206.53.abc (France, wanadoo/Orange, seen more than once from same IP)
request: front page only
robots.txt: no
headers: humanoid

I've seen this a couple times now, and have no idea what it's for. Browser plugin? Publicly available utility?

aristotle

1:49 am on Feb 3, 2019 (gmt 0)

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If it's a URL tester, it might be a less-respectable cousin of the Xenu Link Sleuth, since Xenu does read and obey robots.txt

lucy24

6:07 am on Feb 3, 2019 (gmt 0)

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Met them the other day at my test site, which is IPv6 ... and which it is very unlikely anyone is linking to, seeing as how it has approximately zero content and is intentionally ugly:
2a01:cb19:8712:9800:et cetera
resolves to France Telecom.