[users@httpd] What is w;wget?

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Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 00:15:50 -0400 (EDT)
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Hi,

I haven't checked my logs for a while, but when I did decide to check them, I found this strange request:

62.210.181.107 - - [23/Apr/2005:12:18:44 -0400] "GET //cgi-bin/awstats/awstats.pl \"w;wget\" HTTP/1.1" 404 303

This request was repeated 10 times, one time per second, changing the "//cgi-bin/awstats/awstats.pl" to "//cgi-bin/awstats.pl" , "//cgi/awstats.pl"...

Why is this client so desperate to access awstats.pl? And what does w;wget mean?

Actually, I just discovered that there are 27 requests that had something to do with awstats.pl. What's happening?

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