Re: strange web traffic

Valdis.Kletnieks_at_vt.edu
Date: 08/26/03

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    To: Pall Thayer <pall@fa.is>
    Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 13:00:32 -0400
    
    
    

    On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 09:48:28 -0000, Pall Thayer <pall@fa.is> said:
    identical:
    >
    > GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 686 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98)"
    >
    > I managed to retrieve some info on one of the machines and found out that it
    > was running Windows 2000, not 98.
    >
    > Anyone have any info on this?

    Guess 1: The machine has some tool that allows the user to set the browser
    string sent to the server, because many servers do silly things, such as fail to
    display if it isn't IE6, even if no IE-specific features are used).

    Guess 2: Your site creates 5 requests if it's an IE6.0 browser, but when
    an IE5.5 connects, your site only returns one thing. (If so, your site is
    the sort of place why people do the things in (1))....

    
    



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