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keyplyr

7:53 am on Sep 22, 2015 (gmt 0)

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UA: Dorado WAP-Browser/1.0.0

I've been seeing this UA for years but don't understand much about it. Never drags a referrer and always has odd request patterns; usually from Afrinic or similar. I always take notice because of these reasons, occasionally blocking it then changing my mind later and allowing it again. Now is one of those times.

Any of you who like odd 3rd party browsers (ahem) care to enlighten me?

lucy24

8:19 pm on Sep 22, 2015 (gmt 0)

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ahem yourself :)

"1.0.0" just looks inherently suspicious, doesn't it? Especially if the string has never had any other value.

They must like your site better than mine, because raw logs can only offer up one lone visit.

175.157.112.abc - - [29/Jan/2015:10:04:53 -0800] "GET /ebooks/paston/images/titlepageVI.png HTTP/1.1" 403 1772 "-" "Dorado WAP-Browser/1.0.0/powerplay/2" 
175.157.112.abc - - [29/Jan/2015:10:05:13 -0800] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 200 662 "-" "Dorado WAP-Browser/1.0.0/powerplay/2"
AND (different site)
175.157.112.abc - - [29/Jan/2015:10:05:07 -0800] "GET /piwik/piwik.php?idsite=3&rec=1 HTTP/1.1" 403 1584 "-" "Dorado WAP-Browser/1.0.0/powerplay/2" 

(piwik lives on a different site, and that's the noscript version) Image files such as the originally requested .png don't invoke piwik-- but the 403 page does. Can't help but notice, however, that they did not request the expected errorstyles.css.

Sri Lanka, of all places. It isn't a blocked range, so I have to guess there was something unacceptable in the headers. (I don't keep headers very long, so can't confirm.) Don't know what they were searching for, but I seriously doubt it was the title page of Volume VI of the Paston Letters. (If you put in some weird text and claim to be searching for images, then sure it might come up on the SERP-- this is a recurring problem with Old and Middle English content-- but why on earth would you actually go to the file, when you've already seen that it isn't what you're looking for?)

Looking closer, I notice also that it seems to have taken them an awfully long time to go from first request (10:04:53) to piwik (10:05:07, i.e. fourteen seconds later) to favicon (10:05:13, a further six seconds). That's not a dialup range, is it?

keyplyr

9:08 pm on Sep 22, 2015 (gmt 0)

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it seems to have taken them an awfully long time to go from first request...
Yup, I always see this as well. Could just be a very slow browser. I think it may have been an archaic custom build of an early Opera browser, but that assumption comes from early mentions of "El Dorado" in Opera notes from 10 years ago.