Jack?

Published on December 13, 2006 in Computer Stuff, Networking and Security. 4 Comments

I’m getting a few hits from someone with this user agent: JACK-O`-LANTERN/1.1

I’ve googled it and came and found nothing… Does anyone know who’s using this?

[tags]JACK-O`-LANTERN, User Agent, Browser, Search Engine, Crawlers[/tags]

4 Responses to “Jack?”

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MÃ¡rcio
December 13, 2006 at 13:02

Jack-o’-lantern is a pumpkin used in Halloween day. It’s possible to change user agent to something that you want. It’s possible that this user likes that personage and use it in his user agent, who knows
MÃ¡rio Gamito
December 13, 2006 at 14:13

Try here:
http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/active/html/index.html

Best Regards,
MÃ¡rio Gamito
Rui Moura
December 13, 2006 at 15:04

When using strange (but kind off funny) names i always assume a spam bot …
Michael Clark
December 11, 2007 at 19:57

The Jack-O-Lantern user agent is a spammer’s spider collecting URLs for submitting comments to your blog. See http://www.planetmike.com/journal/2007/12/11/jack-o-lantern-user-agent-considered-harmful/ for details.

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