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grantm (164)
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Just a simple [cpan.org] guy, hacking Perl for fun and profit since way back in the last millenium. You may find me hanging around in the monestary [perlmonks.org].
What am I working on right now? Probably the Sprog project [sourceforge.net].
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User-Agent Atrocities
During a recent Apache log analysis, I found the record for excessively long User-Agent strings went to this 208 character monster:
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; {94FD9F9D-4102-4372-897E-CE34BF1ED774}; ESB{8B286AD5-9080-43E2-9467-745492862693}; Hotbar 4.4.2.0; ODI3 Navigator; MSN 6.1; MSNbMSFT; MSNmen-nz; MSNc00; v5m)
I hadn't previously encountered browser plugins (spyware?) that add a GUID to you User-Agent - presumably to allow your activities to be tracked across domains and even if you have cookies disabled. This poor sucker has two!
Apparently the
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1;
.NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 1.0.2914; .NET CLR 2.0.40607)
What's the longest/weirdest User-Agent you've found in your Apache log?
an endless discussion thread about what features to include.
-- Jarkko Hietaniemi
I didn't know they could web browse on this thing (Score:1)
Does that look like a Cray I web browser to you?