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is this a recon, or just some browser weirdness?

Subject: is this a recon, or just some browser weirdness?
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 20:30:30 -0600
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My web logfile has these strange entries coming from the same IP
address, all relatively close together, but not so close that it looks
automated:

GET /spotcheckframe.php?device_id=557202&cnt=8
HEAD /spotcheck.php
GET /spotcheck.php_files/header_top.jpeg
GET /
POST /login.php
GET /index.html
GET /reportspec.php
GET /reportspec.php_files/header_top.jpeg
GET /viewdevices.php
GET /viewdevices.php_files/header_top.jpeg

This is the browser ID:

"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; ru-RU; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803
Firefox/0.9.3"

Things I don't get:

1) Why the "HEAD" request for the page you just got the full version of
(a page that they requested several times before)?
2) Why request "/" and then "/index.html"?  They would have had to
manually type "/index.html", there isn't a link to it on our site I
don't think.
3) What is with the mangled file names right after the correct name is
requested (e.g. "reportspec.php" followed by
"reportspec.php_files/header_top.jpeg")?
4) Where did "header_top.jpeg" come from anyway, the file on our server
is ".jpg", not ".jpeg"?
5) What is the "ru-RU" add-in for FireFox?

If anyone can shed some light on this I would appreciate it.

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Thank you,

Kirby Angell
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