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Are these the result of "anonymizer" software of some sort? or something else? (samples with hit counts below for a random day)
ADVthanksANCE for any insights!
=Gneen
Also some listed at:
[botsvsbrowsers.com...]
230 Mozilla/5.0+(000000000;+0;+00000+000+00+0+000000;+00000)+DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD+DDDDDDD+DDDD+DDDDDD+DDDDDDDDDDDDD+DDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
154 Mozilla/5.0+(000000000;+0;+00000+000+00+0+0000;+00000;+00000000000)+DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD+DDDDDDDDDDDDDD
132 Mozilla/5.0+(000000000;+0;+00000+000+00+0+000000;+00000)+00000000000000000000+0000000+0000+000000+0000000000000+000000000000000
110 Mozilla/5.0+(000000000;+0;+000+000+00+0+0000000;+00)+DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD+DDDDDDD+DDDD+DDDDDD+DDDDDDDDDDDDD+DDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
72 Mozilla/5.0+(000000000;+0;+000+000+00+0+0000;+00000;+00000000000)+DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD+DDDDDDDDDDDDDD
68 Mozilla/5.0+(000000000;+0;+00000+000+00+0+000000;+00000)+DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD+DDDDDDD+DDDD+DDDDDD+DDDDDDDDDDD+DDDDDDDDDDDDD
58 Mozilla/5.0+(000000000;+0;+00000+000+00+0+000000;+00000)+DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD+DDDDDDD+DDDD+DDDDDD+DDDDDDDDDDD+DDDDDDDDDDDDD
22 Mozilla/5.0+(000000000;+0;+00000+000+00+0+0000000;+00)+DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD+DDDDDDD+DDDD+DDDDDD+DDDDDDDDDDDDD+DDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
18 Mozilla/5.0+(000000000;+0;+00000+000+00+0+0000;+00000;+0000000000)+DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD+DDDDDDDDDDDDD
18 Mozilla/5.0+(000000000;+0;+000+000+00+0+0000000;+00)+00000000000000000000+0000000+0000+000000+0000000000000+000000000000000
12 Mozilla/5.0+(000000000;+0;+00000+000+00+0;+00000)+DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD+DDDDDDD+DDDD+DDDDDD+DDDDDDDDDDDDD+DDDDDDDDDDDDD
10 Mozilla/5.0+(000000000;+0;+000+000+00+0+000000;+00000)+DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD+DDDDDDD+DDDD+DDDDDD+DDDDDDDDDDDDD+DDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
6 Mozilla/5.0+(000000000;+0;+00000+000+00+0+000000;+00000)+000000000000000000+0000000+0000+000000+00000000000+0000000000000
3 Mozilla/5.0+(000000000;+0;+000+000+00+0+0000;+00000;+00000000000)+0000000000000000+00000000000000
2 Mozilla/5.0+(000000000;+0;+00000+000+00+0+0000;+00000;+00000000000)+0000000000000000+00000000000000
2 Mozilla/5.0+(000000000;+0;+00000+000+00+0+0000000;+00)+00000000000000000000+0000000+0000+000000+0000000000000+000000000000000
2 Mozilla/5.0+(000000000;+0;+000+000+00+0+000000;+00000;+00000000000)+00000000000000+0000000000000000
2 Mozilla/5.0+(000000000;+0;+000+000+00+0+000000;+00000)+DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD+DDDDDDD+DDDD+DDDDDD+DDDDDDDDDDD+DDDDDDDDDDDDD
2 Mozilla/5.0+(000000000;+0;+000+000+00+0+0000000;+00)+00000000000000000000+0000000+0000+000000+0000000000000+0000000005.27.1
There is apparently an "Information Hiding" feature that can be turned on that results in masking of the User Agent string similar to what I'm seeing ...
=Gneen
And of course, it makes it impossible (or very difficult) for us to serve customized stylesheets or pages to these visitors.
After comparing a few real user-agent strings to these obscured ones, it looks like the 000+DDD format is Firefox/Mozilla, while the all-numeric 000+000 format is Apple Safari.
Jim