Anyone grok 'blank-IGNORE.html'?

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Looking at my logs and am getting:

[Fri Feb 7 05:03:25 2003] [error] [client xx.xx.xx.xxx] File does not exist: /xxx/xxxxx/xxx/xxxxx/xxxxx/xxxx-xxxxx.org/httpdocs/blank-IGNORE.html

Most files I can find in Google (favicon.ico, robots.txt) but 'blank-IGNORE.html' only brings up references to 1k pages on other sites named 'blank-IGNORE.html' which brings up (duh!) a blank page.

While not terribly concerned, does anyone know what bot/spider/etc., is looking for this file? Does anyone know if this file would have been generated by some HTML generating software?

Any information appreciated. Thanks in advance. bob

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From looking at the results, it seems that blank-IGNORE.html is some sort of Microsoft invention. Further investigation reveals it shows up often in framed sites. I think that these framed sites are generated with FrontPage.

Now why a spider would be looking for this, I have *no* idea.

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Thanks Suzanne! Like I said, I'm not too terribly concerned, more curious than anything else. Especially when nothing but blank pages show up on Google.

I guess this page is the Jerry Seinfeld page, the page about nothing!

bob peeples webb-babies.org

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Quote: Originally posted by kdl2626
I guess this page is the Jerry Seinfeld page, the page about nothing!

Nah, just another reason, why M$ products are also known as bloatware...too much useless functions... Sad

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