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                  Can someone explain to me why this happens?
                                        
I don't understand.

It's not just the MJ12Bot [1] that can't parse links. It seems many web
robots can't parse links correctly. Last month there were requests like:

* /%5C%22gemini://gemini.ctrl-c.club/~stack/gemlog/2022-02-16.tls.gmi%5C%22
* /%5C%22/2022/02/23.1%5C%22
* /%5C%22https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30091336%5C%22
* /%5C%22http://thecodelesscode.com/case/219%5C%22

I mean, the request /2022/02/23.1 does exist on my server, but not (decoded)
/\"/2022/02/23.1\".

What?

That's worse than what MJ12Bot was sending back in the day.

And it's not like it's a single web robot making these requests—no! It's
three different web robots! 

I just … what?

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2019/07/09.1

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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