Thursday, June 23, 2005

Strange bandwidth issue My sharpreader.net domain ran out of bandwidth earlier today. Checking the access log showed that this was due to a huge amount of downloads of SharpReader 0.9.4.0 - a version that's not even actively linked to from sharpreader.net. All of these downloads have http://news.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_world_edition/front_page/rss091.xml as the referrer, and all (except for a single MSIE request) have some version of Mozilla/5.0... (137 words, 23 Comments)