[ic] WARNING: POSSIBLE BAD ROBOT

[Jonathan Clark]

> Below is a line from my error log. I have found WARNING: POSSIBLE
> BAD ROBOT
> occasionally throughout the log. Does anyone know what this may indicate?
>
> 68.55.181.33 LH7Bb5ys:68.55.181.33 - [14/January/2002:15:39:48 -0500] cart
> /cgi-bin/cart/admin/order WARNING: POSSIBLE BAD ROBOT. 51 accesses with no
> 30 second pause.

This is a limiting feature of ic to stop search engines and the like from
getting into endless loops. I sometimes cause this myself by page refreshing
etc.

See the RobotLimit directive:

http://interchange.redhat.com/cgi-bin/ic/docfly.html?mv_arg=icconfig05%2e65

Jonathan
Webmaint.