Vspider

[designfreak]

Had this spider visit me yesterday - only drew one file - any ideas:

Vspider

thanks

design freak

[littleman]

Got an IP?

[Son_House]

Maybe this is the one designfreak is talking about? Found this in our logs yesterday. Made two requests.

216.191.35.225 - - [23/Apr/2001:19:41:28 -0400] "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.0" 200 1046 "-" "vspider"

[littleman]

Well these guys are wide open right now. Have a look:
[216.191.35.225...]
Apparently it is a canned spider/se targeted at business micro portals

From -> [verity.com...]

"Verity was one of the first companies to recognize the value of-and deliver-full-text search solutions for intranet, e-commerce and business portals. Our achievements come from our patented technology, long-term corporate viability, financial strength, support of industry leaders and proven success across a rich, broad customer base....blah,blah,blah..."

[Son_House]

Same ua but different ip. Made 2 requests one of which was for robots.txt.

131.84.1.24 - "vspider"
Whois info:

Defense Technical Information Center
8725 John J. Kingman Road
Suite 0944
Fort Belvoir, VA 22060-6218
US

Looks like this is their site: [dtic.mil...]