Cloud Testing Blog » Net News http://www.cloudtesting.com/blog Automated Functional, Cross Browser and Load Testing for Websites Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:42:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Cloud Testing in Japan http://www.cloudtesting.com/blog/2010/01/21/cloud-testing-in-japan/ http://www.cloudtesting.com/blog/2010/01/21/cloud-testing-in-japan/#comments Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:09:50 +0000 Phil Smith - Cloud Testing http://www.cloudtesting.com/blog/?p=1227 Cloud Testing is launching in Japan soon. The service, which is in private beta at the moment extends the current service allowing subscribers to functionally test their websites using multiple real browsers.

Cloud Testing Japan is at http://www.cloudtesting.jp

]]> http://www.cloudtesting.com/blog/2010/01/21/cloud-testing-in-japan/feed/ 1 What happens when you post a link on Twitter? http://www.cloudtesting.com/blog/2009/12/23/what-happens-when-you-post-a-link-on-twitter/ http://www.cloudtesting.com/blog/2009/12/23/what-happens-when-you-post-a-link-on-twitter/#comments Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:33:56 +0000 Phil Smith - Cloud Testing http://www.cloudtesting.com/blog/?p=1249 When a link is put into a Twitter posting, the link gets crawled very quickly by the following agents:

  • @hourlypress
  • Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
  • Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; abby/1.0; +http://www.ellerdale.com/crawler.html)
  • Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0b; Windows NT 5.0) Gecko/2009011913 Firefox/3.0.6 TweetmemeBot
  • Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)
  • Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Feedtrace-bot/0.2; bot@feedtrace.com)
  • Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; mxbot/1.0; +http://www.chainn.com/mxbot.html)
  • User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.7) Gecko/2009021910 Firefox/3.0.7 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
  • Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0 OneRiot/1.0 (http://www.oneriot.com)
  • PostRank/2.0 (postrank.com)
  • Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0 Me.dium/1.0 (http://me.dium.com)
  • Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; VideoSurf_bot +http://www.videosurf.com/bot.html)
  • Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3
  • Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; page-store) [email:paul at page-store.com]

Logfiles

This is the result from a web logs perspective (sorry for the formatting):

ec2-174-129-50-201.compute-1.amazonaws.com – - [23/Dec/2009:17:19:36 +0000] “HEAD / HTTP/1.1″ 200 – “-” “@hourlypress”
ec2-75-101-168-49.compute-1.amazonaws.com – - [23/Dec/2009:17:19:36 +0000] “HEAD / HTTP/1.1″ 200 – “-” “@hourlypress”
crawl-66-249-68-131.googlebot.com – - [23/Dec/2009:17:19:37 +0000] “GET / HTTP/1.1″ 200 20 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)”
flx1-ppp45.lvdi.net – - [23/Dec/2009:17:19:37 +0000] “HEAD / HTTP/1.0″ 200 – “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0 OneRiot/1.0 (http://www.oneriot.com)”
64.13.147.189 – - [23/Dec/2009:17:19:37 +0000] “GET / HTTP/1.1″ 200 20 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; abby/1.0; +http://www.ellerdale.com/crawler.html)”
jay.favsys.net – - [23/Dec/2009:17:19:39 +0000] “GET / HTTP/1.1″ 200 – “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0b; Windows NT 5.0) Gecko/2009011913 Firefox/3.0.6 TweetmemeBot”
65.52.19.122 – - [23/Dec/2009:17:19:39 +0000] “GET / HTTP/1.1″ 200 20 “-” “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)”
89-212-78-95.static.t-2.net – - [23/Dec/2009:17:19:41 +0000] “GET / HTTP/1.1″ 200 – “-” “-”
70.37.66.245 – - [23/Dec/2009:17:19:42 +0000] “GET / HTTP/1.1″ 200 20 “-” “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)”
ec2-174-129-27-223.compute-1.amazonaws.com – - [23/Dec/2009:17:19:42 +0000] “GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.1″ 200 153 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Feedtrace-bot/0.2; bot@feedtrace.com)”
ec2-174-129-27-223.compute-1.amazonaws.com – - [23/Dec/2009:17:19:42 +0000] “GET / HTTP/1.1″ 200 – “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Feedtrace-bot/0.2; bot@feedtrace.com)”
152.201.207.67.svwh.net – - [23/Dec/2009:17:19:45 +0000] “GET / HTTP/1.0″ 200 – “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; mxbot/1.0; +http://www.chainn.com/mxbot.html)”
152.201.207.67.svwh.net – - [23/Dec/2009:17:19:46 +0000] “GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.0″ 200 153 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; mxbot/1.0; +http://www.chainn.com/mxbot.html)”
67-220-192-215.hosted.static.webnx.com – - [23/Dec/2009:17:19:47 +0000] “GET / HTTP/1.1″ 200 – “-” “User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.7) Gecko/2009021910 Firefox/3.0.7 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)”
flx1-ppp46.lvdi.net – - [23/Dec/2009:17:20:02 +0000] “HEAD / HTTP/1.0″ 200 – “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0 OneRiot/1.0 (http://www.oneriot.com)”
ec2-174-129-141-109.compute-1.amazonaws.com – - [23/Dec/2009:17:20:04 +0000] “HEAD / HTTP/1.1″ 200 – “-” “PostRank/2.0 (postrank.com)”
ec2-174-129-141-109.compute-1.amazonaws.com – - [23/Dec/2009:17:20:05 +0000] “HEAD / HTTP/1.1″ 200 – “-” “PostRank/2.0 (postrank.com)”
flx1-ppp47.lvdi.net – - [23/Dec/2009:17:20:09 +0000] “HEAD / HTTP/1.0″ 200 – “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0 Me.dium/1.0 (http://me.dium.com)”
22.e.78ae.static.theplanet.com – - [23/Dec/2009:17:20:20 +0000] “GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.0″ 200 153 “http://portal.cloudtesting.com/” “Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; VideoSurf_bot +http://www.videosurf.com/bot.html)”
22.e.78ae.static.theplanet.com – - [23/Dec/2009:17:20:26 +0000] “HEAD / HTTP/1.0″ 200 – “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; VideoSurf_bot +http://www.videosurf.com/bot.html)”
ec2-174-129-50-201.compute-1.amazonaws.com – - [23/Dec/2009:17:20:32 +0000] “GET / HTTP/1.1″ 200 – “-” “@hourlypress”
ec2-174-129-50-201.compute-1.amazonaws.com – - [23/Dec/2009:17:20:32 +0000] “GET / HTTP/1.1″ 200 – “-” “-”
ec2-174-129-175-212.compute-1.amazonaws.com – - [23/Dec/2009:17:21:13 +0000] “GET / HTTP/1.1″ 200 – “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3″
ec2-67-202-51-154.compute-1.amazonaws.com – - [23/Dec/2009:17:23:48 +0000] “GET / HTTP/1.1″ 200 – “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; page-store) [email:paul at page-store.com]”
ec2-174-129-78-138.compute-1.amazonaws.com – - [23/Dec/2009:17:29:46 +0000] “GET / HTTP/1.1″ 200 – “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; page-store) [email:paul at page-store.com]”

If you want to see it yourself, just tail your server logs and then paste a URL into Twitter.

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Here is an example of searching for a recent posting we had done via Twitter, which showed up instantly (well just after we’d posted and then the bot had been in and read the content and link).


This is what you’ll see in your logs:

flx1-ppp46.lvdi.net – - [23/Dec/2009:17:20:02 +0000] “HEAD / HTTP/1.0″ 200 – “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0 OneRiot/1.0 (http://www.oneriot.com)”

You can try One Riot out at http://www.oneriot.com

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