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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