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In article <e9095c2b5b.chris@mytardis>,
   Chris Hughes <news13@noonehere.co.uk> wrote:
> In message <5b2b591f8fNews03@avisoft.f9.co.uk>
>           Martin <News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk> wrote:

> > In article <a56a552b5b.chris@mytardis>,
> >    Chris Hughes <news13@noonehere.co.uk> wrote:
> >> In message <5b2b4df63fNews03@avisoft.f9.co.uk>
> >>           Martin <News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk> wrote:

> >>> In the last couple of days my website has had an increase in
> >>> traffic, from about 30 different IP addresses, all with a
> >>> User-Agent of "Go-http-client/1.1".

> >>> Each starts with a "GET / HTTP/1.1" request, with various
> >>> User-Agents, including Windows, Linux & MaxOS. If that works (as
> >>> it will) it then issues GETs for about 30 varied files, then
> >>> stops.

> >>> It seems that Go-http-client is a package which "provides HTTP
> >>> client and server implementations" but it is suddenly being used
> >>> by lots of IPs in a suspicious way.

> >>> Anyone else seen this?

> >>> They obviously do not abide by robots/txt (or even read it), so
> >>> the only way I know to block them is to add them to /htaccess as
> >>> deny froms - some have the same top two numbers.

> >>> Are there any better ways? One way is just to ignore them, I
> >>> know, but I would not want a trickle to turn into a flood.

> >> Is your web space provided via PlusNet ?
> >> If so you could report possible suspicious activity.

> > Yes ... but I doubt they would be interested at the current level.

> I meant to say via PlusNet's Community Forum, which often gets a
> faster response then ringing the normal customer support, as they
> frequently don't seem to know some users have web space! as you
> use a legacy system i.e. force9

Aaah yes - that is a good idea. Thanks.

-- 
Martin Avison 
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Go-http-client Martin <News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk> - 2024-01-31 10:25 +0000
  Re: Go-http-client Chris Hughes <news13@noonehere.co.uk> - 2024-01-31 11:47 +0000
    Re: Go-http-client Martin <News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk> - 2024-01-31 12:27 +0000
      Re: Go-http-client Chris Hughes <news13@noonehere.co.uk> - 2024-01-31 12:59 +0000
        Re: Go-http-client Martin <News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk> - 2024-01-31 13:11 +0000
  Re: Go-http-client Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2024-01-31 15:18 +0000
    Re: Go-http-client Martin <News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk> - 2024-01-31 16:56 +0000
      Re: Go-http-client Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2024-01-31 18:32 +0000
  Re: Go-http-client Martin <News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk> - 2024-02-22 09:53 +0000
    Re: Go-http-client "Richard Torrens (News)" <News+19772@Torrens.org> - 2024-02-23 10:15 +0000
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