AWStats, as well as listing user agents it recognises, has a list of those that it doesn’t recognise. Most of these are miscellaneous robots (including all manner of aggregation tools), but some are rather more odd. Here’s a few that I’ve had:
- DumbBot
- Appears to be the crawler for DumbFind.com, a search engine that isn’t running yet.
- rawdog
- The nicely named RSS Aggregator Without Delusions of Grandeur, which a Python-based aggregator.
- Firefox_0.8.0__(CP/M;_8-bit)
- Not quite sure what to make of that. Firefox running on CP/M?
- JpifsbxrjuuucJsmahqexxJgt5
- Looks like something just burped on my web server.
- Thunderbird_1.0_!!!__Go_Scott_!!!
- I’m assuming that’s something to do with an RSS add-in for Thunderbird.
- SpaceBison/0.01_[fu]_(Win67;_X;_ShonenKnife)
- I’m guessing that’s someone messing around with FireSomething. I think.
- Unknown_(Unknown;_Unknown;_Unknown)
- I think I get the idea…
- Any_Browser_(compatible;)
- That’s specific.
- User_agent_strings_cannot_be_trusted!
- Evidently.
- Donald_Duck
- Now you’re taking the piss.
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May 29, 2004 at 20:18
>> SpaceBison/0.01_[fu]_(Win67;_X;_ShonenKnife)
Shame.
Actually, this is the Proxomitron application. Proxomitron has as one of its options a thing to conceal the user-agent field; this is the default one it uses.
Proxomitron is an absolutely great program, but it stopped getting developed a while ago.
May 29, 2004 at 21:39
Oh right, must have overlooked that function. I’ve used Proxomitron before, back when IE was still my default browser, but now that I use Firefox I don’t need it so much since it blocks out a lot of the things that I needed Proxomitron for.
May 30, 2004 at 03:21
> JpifsbxrjuuucJsmahqexxJgt5
> Looks like something just burped on my web server.
Not a burp, some email-harvesting spambots give a random string for user-agent and referer.
May 30, 2004 at 09:56
One I had last year..
Psion3-4linedisplay(lite xf)
That must have looked lovely. Hmm mono..