OT: Browsers (was: Re: Wierd user agent strings)

2000-06-05 Thread Roger Espel Llima 

 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%

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Re: Wierd user agent strings

2000-06-05 Thread ___cliff rayman___ 

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


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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.
 

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Re: Wierd user agent strings

2000-06-04 Thread Renzo Toma 


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.
 


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