Malformed HTTP requests in an attempt to break the box?
Paul M Foster wrote:
> Here's a puzzler. I host a local political site whose bandwidth soared
> this month and had to be continually readjusted. In looking at webalizer
> (statistics), I noticed the following anomaly:
>
> Date: 16 April 2008
> 92267 KBytes
> 10001 Files
> 10002 Hits
>
> All this from *one* visitor in Italy (bear in mind this is a *local*
> political site). Almost one third of the hits to this site occurred from
> this one visitor on this one day, one visit. Awstats pretty much
> confirmed these observations (though they're harder to track through
> awstats).
>
> So my question is, how do you rack up 10002 hits to a site in one visit?
> (Well, I have other questions, as you can imagine. But they'd mostly be
> answered if I could answer the above question).
>
> Paul
>
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