https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63111
Bug ID: 63111
Summary: Modern Fedora distros can not be assessed from user
agent string for SquidReportOperatingSystems.htm
Product: Analytics
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: Wikistats
Assignee: wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Reporter: ezac...@wikimedia.org
CC: christ...@quelltextlich.at, ezac...@wikimedia.org,
tneg...@wikimedia.org
Web browser: ---
Mobile Platform: ---
reported by R.Luik:
"How do you even detect Fedora to say it has 8.4 M requests to your servers
here when no browser on Fedora includes something that could identify Fedora in
their user agent?
E.g.
Midori UA-String in Fedora 20 is:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux) AppleWebKit/538.1 (KHTML, like Gecko)
Chrome/18.0.1025.133 Safari/538.1 Midori/0.5
Firefox's one is:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:25.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/25.0"
my reply
"Here are two UA strings with Fedora in it that occurred most on one recent
day:
70 (x 1000) times: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko
Fedora/1.9.2.9-1.el5 en-us;en;q=0.5 -
26 (x 1000) times: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; es-AR; rv:1.9.2.23)
Gecko/20110930 Fedora/3.6.23-1.fc14 Firefox/3.6.23
es-ar;es;q=0.8;en-us;q=0.5;en;q=0.3 -"
R. Luik:
"Well those look like ancient versions of Firefox 3.6.
If you aren't counting the newer releases (which seems impossible by the
UA-Strings I sent you) the Linux stats breakdown is pointless. :/
Mozilla seems to have removed the info from the UA-String in newer versions,
(and Ubuntu for example seems to re-pack Firefox to add "Ubuntu" back to it) so
e.g. you end up reporting Ubuntu as having more popularity when in reality the
detection process is flawed for other distro(s)."
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