Hi there, :queasy:

Im not sure if this is the right place to post this but i was wondering if someone could help me with something.

I keep getting hit by IP's with the specific user agent: User Agent : Wget/1.10.2

is this a bit? or is this a person? ive tied hitting the IP but this returns nothing: one of the IP address's is: 80.192.4.102

I would really appreciate it if someone could tel me what this mystery visitor is?

Thanks,
Chris

    I kinda understand that, but does that mean that someone is accessing my site, or is this a cheeky person using wget to mirror my site?

    Im worried 🙁

    help

      Or some much more nefarious bot impersonating Wget.

      User-agent is not reliable. Owners of evil or lame bots put whatever they can in User-agent to try to get what they want.

      Mark

        Ah poo, guess Ill just have to leave it.

        I dont want this bot to mess with my stats if its not real traffic :s

        ah well 🙂 Thanks for you help anyway guys

          Did you look up their IP address to see who's visiting? (Could be someone you want spidering your site).
          Did you think of blocking that IP?
          I once had that situation and I put up special content just for them.

          if ($IP=="1.2.3.4") { print "Welcome Wget visitor from 1.2.3.4. Who the hell are you?!? And why are you using Wget?"; }

            I used dnsstuff to look up the IP and it just brings back info about telewest broadband.

            I put a scrip ton my page that e-maisl me when it hits my site and it seems to kit the site every 15mins

            i have e-mailed telewest to see what the hell is up 😃

            Thanks for your help guys 😉

              Heh. You probably have something interesting on your site and someone wants to be notified the minute your sites gets updated.

              I wrote a script that uses Curl (similar to Wget) and it hits my favorite band's web site four times a day and it emails me whenever the concert page is different than the last time my script checked. (This way, I know about concert announcements as early as possible). I've had that script running for three years and they haven't changed their concert page.

              If you don't want the guy hitting your page, you could just block him (lots of different ways to do that). You could display a personal message to him everytime he checks if you wanted to.

              Telewesst isn't going to care that one of their users is hitting your site once every 15 minutes. (And you probably shouldn't be too worried about it either - it's no big deal. I mean, would you care if he was using Internet Explorer and came to your site once every 15 mins?) Telewest would probably get involved if he was hitting your site 15 times per seconds (that would be abuse) but once every 15 minutes is nothing - some people visit PHPBuilder more often than that!

                include_me wrote:

                Hi there, :queasy:

                Im not sure if this is the right place to post this but i was wondering if someone could help me with something.

                I keep getting hit by IP's with the specific user agent: User Agent : Wget/1.10.2

                is this a bit? or is this a person? ive tied hitting the IP but this returns nothing: one of the IP address's is: 80.192.4.102

                I would really appreciate it if someone could tel me what this mystery visitor is?

                Thanks,
                Chris

                I'll admit I've wget'd a few sites. I usually use the -U option and fake it to look like its Internet Exploder. Also there is a wait feature that is pretty handy, to take a little break between requests. It is a supercool program (ex: make automated backups of your sites via FTP since wget can login for you).

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