Slurp showing as Browser!

may be a cloaking detection !

[Abdelrhman Fahmy]

I just ran my webstats for last 2 days and found some hits from Ips resolving to yahoo.com , but the user agent showing as MSIE 6!, it's request the HTML only not the whole page and trying to request every page two times a day ,

The user agent shown as Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.1)
And the requests coming from a different ip class than the usual slurp ip range, but still starting with the 66
Requesting IPs are 66.94.233.XX and resolving to XXXX.search.scd.yahoo.com
Looks like a cloaking detection!
Has anybody else seeing this?

[Brett_Tabke]

Anyone else seen this?

[digitalv]

Haven't seen this myself yet, but my guess would be that someone from Yahoo has been reading this board and is now checking to make sure people aren't cloaking :)

[Sanenet]

Just had a quick look though the last 7 days of logs from two different sites - couldn't find it, although lots of "normal" slurp visits.

[jo1ene]

66.196.90.*** Mozilla/5.0 (compatible;Yahoo!Slurp;...)

Like this? I had 7 of these this morning.

[dhatz]

No, I checked 3-4 domains and didn't find anything "suspicious" from these address blocks (didn't check all Y IPs though)

A complaint I have with Yahoo is with their http 404 error testing or whatever that is. Plus the handling of 301/302 redirects.

Wrt 404: I have a site where I chose to name the files using numbers, or a letter and numbers, e.g. b1562.html. On that particular site, 15% of all Slurp requests are 404s

[fiestagirl]

Yes, starting at the beginning of June. IP's in the 209.131.59.XXX range though.

[Abdelrhman Fahmy]

now i have searched for the Ip 66.94.233.XX [google.com] and found some of website statistics and proxy logs showing repeated visits from the same ip block,

why i'm thinking that it's a clocking? becuase the bot trying to check every page twice within a very short time (1 hour or less)

also it's seems to me that it's just for the new pages!(the pages that slurp find it for the first time)