At 08:07 2013-02-25, Jeff Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
In this application when a page submits a request, it calls a procedure. I matched up the request logs with the phantom orders and checked the IP addresses making the requests. They were msnbot! After duplicating the phantom loads I did a search on Bing and found the URL for the procedure that adds the load. You can not log into the system from the URL, but authentication is checked after the blank record is appended. You also have to call the URL with a parameter with the robot does but Bing does not. There is a robot.txt in each folder but it appears that msnbot does not respect that. Looking at the requests, it appears that msnbot calls the url anywhere from two to over 100 times right in a row! They just happen to catch these urls immediately after the request.
Interesting. I think you should submit this to the RISKS List. Or I could do it for you, whichever you prefer.
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