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I sometimes get the same ones at work! It's the crawler from the Baidu-search-engine checking if the printer is a web-server.

I contacted ITS about it (obviously, you shouldn't be able to print from outside the university) but they haven't really given it any work. It surely is a security hole, and a minor waste of ink & paper.




Actually, it's somebody searching for an open proxy, note the inclusion of http and hostname in the GET. The baidu crawler wouldn't be so ridiculous as to request its own homepage from your server. Somebody is testing to see if they can get your server to proxy to baidu for them.


But why so often then? Surely at some point you'd know there's an open port there and stop querying it.


Surely at some point these same people would realize there's no admin.php on my web server, but there they are, still looking for it...


because they are automated bots...


I get several pages printed per day, some with other sites listed. Very happy to be enlightened about the source!




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