Does anyone know anything about a Java bot scanning from an Apple /22? I'm seeing at least half a dozen a day on a small site, with no apparent robots.txt.
IP range: 17.58.56.0/22 UA: Java/1.8.0_222 No Sec.
SumGuy
11:40 pm on Mar 17, 2023 (gmt 0)
I have a single instance of seeing Java/1.8.0_222 on March 8 / 2023 - from 17.58.56.4.
I have 6 other hits from 6 unique IP's in 17.58.58.0/24 and 17.58.59.0/24. The 58.0 hits came in July 2022, the 59.0 hits came in Feb this year. I was looking for anything with IP 17.58.5x.xx
The UA from the .58 and .59 hits were
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_12_3) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/56.0.2924.87 Safari/537.36
or
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/14.1.1 Safari/605.1.15
All hits were for my default / landing file and nothing else.
lucy24
12:52 am on Mar 18, 2023 (gmt 0)
A fair number of blocked requests from UA Java/1\.8\.0_ but never exactly _222 and never from 17. Almost all of them HEAD for assorted pages, never more than two on a visit.
Apple intern trying some botrunning on the side?
dstiles
9:39 am on Mar 18, 2023 (gmt 0)
Lucy: could be. But it was so fequent (several every day) that I've blobkit the range.
tangor
4:19 am on Mar 19, 2023 (gmt 0)
Are there any java robots with any benefit?
(I've blocked java in UA for years...)
lucy24
5:36 am on Mar 19, 2023 (gmt 0)
Are there any java robots with any benefit?
:: quick riffle through htaccess ::
I sure hope not.
BrowserMatch ^Java bad_agent=$0
tangor
1:12 am on Mar 21, 2023 (gmt 0)
Nice to have a confirmation on the value of "java" bots!
