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Posted to modperl@perl.apache.org by Tim Bunce <Ti...@ig.co.uk> on 2000/06/04 22:11:38 UTC
Wierd user agent strings
Does anyone know what User-Agent strings like these may mean:
(r\177xx\303\203x0\226H
(r\177xx\303\203xT\365G
(r\177xx\303\203xt]D
(r\210xP\223G
(r\210x\354\250D
(r\210xx\303\214xH?E
(r\210xx\303\214xP+E
(r\210xx\303\214xXCE
(r\210xx\303\214x\$EE
(r\210xx\303\214x\204VF
(r\210xx\303\214x\204yG
(r\210xx\303\214x\20\256E
(where \210 etc are octal character values).
Tim.
Re: Wierd user agent strings
Posted by ___cliff rayman___ <cl...@genwax.com>.
you can put whatever bogus strings you want in the user-agent field if you are
using something like lwp-request. they are probably either:
a ) total shenanigans
b) unicode or someother character set
--
___cliff rayman___www.genwax.com___cliff@genwax.com___
Renzo Toma wrote:
> Good question, we have a database for browser usage analysis. It currently
> holds roughly 55.000 unique tags. A good 4000 of em are bogus strings like
> posted below. So I love to hear some theories too!
>
> Oh fyi, May's score was 80% MSIE, 18% NS..
>
> Cheers,
>
> -Renzo
>
> > Does anyone know what User-Agent strings like these may mean:
> >
> > (r\177xx\303\203x0\226H
> > (r\177xx\303\203xT\365G
> > (r\177xx\303\203xt]D
> > (r\210xP\223G
> > (r\210x\354\250D
> > (r\210xx\303\214xH?E
> > (r\210xx\303\214xP+E
> > (r\210xx\303\214xXCE
> > (r\210xx\303\214x\$EE
> > (r\210xx\303\214x\204VF
> > (r\210xx\303\214x\204yG
> > (r\210xx\303\214x\20\256E
> >
> > (where \210 etc are octal character values).
> >
> > Tim.
> >
>
> ...
> __... __ .... ________________________________________________________
> ... ...
> .. .. Renzo Toma http://www.veronica.nl
> .... Veronica Digitaal B.V. unix.modperl.apache.sql.mason
> ____ ... _____________________________________________________________
> .
OT: Browsers (was: Re: Wierd user agent strings)
Posted by Roger Espel Llima <es...@iagora.net>.
> Oh fyi, May's score was 80% MSIE, 18% NS..
Here (www.iagora.com, a general non-tech site) I get:
MSIE-all: 64.73%
Netscape-all: 34.04%
Other: 1.23%
within Netscape:
Netscape-5: 0.09%
Netscape-4: 92.34%
Netscape-3: 7.38%
Netscape-2: 0.19%
within MSIE:
MSIE-5: 69.59%
MSIE-4: 28.12%
MSIE-3: 1.82%
MSIE-2: 0.30%
--
Roger Espel Llima, espel@iagora.net
http://www.iagora.com/~espel/index.html
Re: Wierd user agent strings
Posted by Renzo Toma <re...@veronica.nl>.
Good question, we have a database for browser usage analysis. It currently
holds roughly 55.000 unique tags. A good 4000 of em are bogus strings like
posted below. So I love to hear some theories too!
Oh fyi, May's score was 80% MSIE, 18% NS..
Cheers,
-Renzo
> Does anyone know what User-Agent strings like these may mean:
>
> (r\177xx\303\203x0\226H
> (r\177xx\303\203xT\365G
> (r\177xx\303\203xt]D
> (r\210xP\223G
> (r\210x\354\250D
> (r\210xx\303\214xH?E
> (r\210xx\303\214xP+E
> (r\210xx\303\214xXCE
> (r\210xx\303\214x\$EE
> (r\210xx\303\214x\204VF
> (r\210xx\303\214x\204yG
> (r\210xx\303\214x\20\256E
>
> (where \210 etc are octal character values).
>
> Tim.
>
...
__... __ .... ________________________________________________________
... ...
.. .. Renzo Toma http://www.veronica.nl
.... Veronica Digitaal B.V. unix.modperl.apache.sql.mason
____ ... _____________________________________________________________
.