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Robin_W
03-11-2001, 12:05 AM
Hello, new person on the block here. I'd appreciate some
information here from more knowledgeable folks.

Checking my Website logs today, I noticed a couple of rather
strange entries:

204.123.28.33 - - [10/Mar/2001:09:24:08 -0500] "GET /hyenas/'+url+' HTTP/1.0" 404 8034 "-" "Mercator-2.0"
204.123.28.33 - - [10/Mar/2001:09:24:13 -0500] "GET /hyenas/'+curl+'&'+qs+' HTTP/1.0" 404 8034 "-" "Mercator-2.0"

Not only do I not know what a "Mercator-2.0" browser is
(they're a software company, apparently), but what on
earth is this '+url+' and '+curl+'&'+qs+' ? What does it mean?
I couldn't even find it in "Webmaster in a Nutshell".

Can anyone explain to me what was going on here?<!-- NO_AUTO_LINK -->