RE: [cobalt-users] Strange Web Trends report for Sept

["Dan Kriwitsky" <webhosting@xxxxxxxxx>]

> I hope this question isn't too lame. I'm web site
> designer/webmaster for a hospital
> in Missouri.  We have a dedicated Cobalt RAQ at Verio.

That's tough luck. They're about to be cut off from a lot of the Internet
due to spam support so your mail will start bouncing.

>
> When i ran a Web Trends report for September, I got
> the following strange entry:
>
> Our seventh most requested page was:
>
> http://www.boone.org/recipes/recipes/recipes/recipes/
>
> recipes/recipes/recipes/recipes/recipes/recipes/recipes/recipes/
>              recipes/recipes/recipes/recipes/recipes/recipes/recipes/
>
> recipes/recipes/recipes/recipes/recipes/recipes/recipes/recipes/
>              recipes/recipes/recipes/recipes/recipe/
>
> with 1,965  page views or  2.42%  of total page views in 2 user sessions
>
> There is no such page.  We have www.boone.org/wellaware/recipes.html
> and we have www.boone.org/wellaware/recipes/varioushealthyrecipepages.html
>
> What could have caused this?  A robot or spider gone loopy.  A
> bad bookmark.
> Could it have been malicious?   The first time such a thing has
> come up, so I
> thought I'd ask.

My guess would be some kind of rewrite rule or Mod_speling gone haywire?
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Dan Kriwitsky