Connection error
 

Hello - Just in the past week I've suddenly started seeing error messages like this in my Shoutcast Server Log - dozens of them per day. (In the example below I've put x's for the IP address that's trying to connect and y's for my stream source.) I've seen it with many different IP addresses and various user agents. Can anyone tell me what it means? I don't know whether I'm getting a rash of strange bot attempts, or if some problem is blocking legitimate listeners from connecting.

ERROR [DST xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:xxxx] Badly formed HTTP request [GET /stream HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: WinampMPEG/5.09
Icy-MetaData: 1
Host: yyy.yy.yy.yyy:yyyy
Accept-Encoding: gzip, identity
Connection: Close, TE
TE: identity
Content-Length: 0]

Bots, bots and much more bots. I'm blocking atm more than 20 different IPs, which are connecting shortly (1sec) with very strange user-agents etc. The most of these bots are trying to grab the stream-title to fill more and more strange radio directories. Awfully.

Oh I've seen many bots over the past couple of years since I started my current station - those one-second connections, others that connect periodically for exactly 120 seconds, etc. But it's only in the past week that I've started seeing these error messages about "Badly formed HTTP request," and now I'm getting like 100 a day! Very mysterious. Is it some new type of bot activity? Or has Shoutcast done something that's blocking certain kinds of bots that used to get through? Or...???