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Posted: 04/04/2005 10:22 pm
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Hi

here is an extract from my logs

everything after the poker.htm is invalid

any ideas as to why MSN BOT is doing this
how do I trace the source ?

I can find no other user agents just the msn bot so no other bot or surfer is following these invalid URL's

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Chris

65.54.188.149 - - [05/Apr/2005:12:41:01 +0930] "GET /poker.htm/opp/opp/opp/opp/opp/opp/opp/opp/opp/opp/opp/opp/opp/opp/bugs.htm HTTP/1.0" 200 13650 "-" "msnbot/1.0 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)"
65.54.188.149 - - [05/Apr/2005:12:41:50 +0930] "GET /poker.htm/opp/opp/opp/opp/opp/opp/cgi-bin/opp/opp/opp/opp/opp/opp/opp/opp/opp/custcare.htm HTTP/1.0" 200 13666 "-" "msnbot/1.0 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)"
65.54.188.149 - - [05/Apr/2005:12:41:55 +0930] "GET /poker.htm/opp/opp/opp/opp/opp/opp/cgi-bin/opp/opp/opp/opp/opp/opp/opp/opp/opp/howtoplay.htm HTTP/1.0" 200 13667 "-" "msnbot/1.0 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)"
65.54.188.149 - - [05/Apr/2005:12:41:58 +0930] "GET /poker.htm/opp/opp/opp/opp/opp/opp/opp/opp/opp/opp/opp/opp/opp/bugs.htm HTTP/1.0" 200 13646 "-" "msnbot/1.0 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)"
65.54.188.149 - - [05/Apr/2005:12:42:02 +0930] "GET /poker.htm/opp/opp/opp/opp/opp/opp/opp/opp/opp/opp/opp/opp/opp/custcare.htm HTTP/1.0" 200 13650 "-" "msnbot/1.0 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)"
65.54.188.149 - - [05/Apr/2005:12:45:03 +0930] "GET /poker.htm/opp/opp/opp/opp/opp/opp/opp/opp/opp/opp/opp/opp/opp/howtoplay.htm HTTP/1.0" 200 13651 "-" "msnbot/1.0 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)"




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Posted: 04/04/2005 11:28 pm
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Wow - I have never seen anything like that. And each log record mentions 2 pages.



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Posted: 04/06/2005 05:07 pm
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It seems no one else has either.

I must admit to being impressed with MSN's response
within 2 hours they got back to me requesting more info, and then again to say they will continue the search today.

I believe their database has some bad entries in it but because all the above urls actually resolve to a valid page they are not flushed from the database

The bot does not show where the page was linked from so I am unable to resolve the source, I'll just have to wait and see what they come up with





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Posted: 04/06/2005 10:12 pm
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Excellent that they responded so quickly. Please let us know the outcome because it's got me stumped.


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