Bad robot: WebHopper bounch! Owner: peter@cartes.hut.fi

Benjamin Franz (snowhare@netimages.com)
Fri, 17 Nov 1995 09:24:00 -0800 (PST)

I was checking my stats and this showed up with 1838 hits on the
9th of November. It tried to completely explore an infinite virtual space
in one run, with an average time between hits of 4.3 seconds. Its' parser
has to be broken because it was exploring a space defined by a
?cookie=number (used for shopping basket session tracking), but failing
to preserve the '=' (generating 'cookienumber' instead of
'cookie=number') between calls and causing a new cookie to be assigned
to every request. It went into an infinite loop over the same five base
pages as it tried to do a depth first search of the site - for a
little over two hours.

Argh.

Anyone else hit by this rather broken robot?

-- 
Benjamin Franz, Webmaster, Net Images