> My sites are hit on a regular basis by this agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; > MS FrontPage 14.0) > - it makes requests with methods OPTIONS or HEAD which are forbiden in my > sites; > - it makes requests for pages that does not exist, like > - /_vti_inf.html > - /_vti_bin/shtml.exe/_vti_rpc > The result is that the visitors are tagged as "bad bot". > What are they looking for? > Should I let them go or what?
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