Schmozilla/v9.14 Platinum ... Whats this?

[Barron]

I'm starting see alot of this in my logs across several domains. Any clue what this is? good bot? site sucker?

I get this after tracing:

Tracing route to 66-17-15-138.biz.bkfd.arrival.net [66.17.15.138]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

After a search, seems it copied from "Perl Cookbook, specifically Fetching a URL from a Perl Script (recipe 20.1):

$ua->agent("Schmozilla/v9.14 Platinum"); # give it time, it'll get there
my req = HTTP::Request->new(GET => $url);
$req->referer("http://wizard.yellowbrick.oz"); # perplex the log analyzers"

Is some silly coder using this as a bot to check links.

I'm this close ---> <---- to banning it.


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[swedguy]

I saw it couple of days ago too. I couldn't figure out what it was either. But it wasn't that many requests so I didn't bother about it.

[Barron]

I think someone is using it as a site sucker. But, I want to give a while to see if anyone owns up to coding their link bot with it. I'd hate to shoot myself in the foot and get my domains banned lol


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[swedguy]

If it doesn't use much of your bw, it's a lot easier to just drop it and go to the next thing on your todo list :)