[WEB4LIB] FW: user agent log file - unknown platform and Other ag

[Stéphane Dudart]

thank you!
----- Original Message -----
From: Gimon, Charles A <CAGimon at mpls.lib.mn.us>
To: Multiple recipients of list <web4lib at webjunction.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2000 4:20 PM
Subject: [WEB4LIB] FW: user agent log file - unknown platform and Other ag


> Try grepping through the actual logs--the non-Mozilla and non-Windows/Mac
> entries can be quite interesting.
>
> Here are some examples from our logs for July:
>
> Robots:
>
> Scooter/1.0
> Slurp/cat+(slurp at inktomi.com;+http://www.inktomi.com/slurp.html)
> Googlebot/2.0+(+http://googlebot.com/bot.html)
>
> Validators (these were primarily me, validating my work):
>
> Bobby+3.0
> W3C_Validator/1.66+libwww-perl/5.48
> WDG_SiteValidator/1.1
>
> Browsers that are not Netscape or IE:
>
> Mozilla/4.73+(Windows+NT+4.0;+U)+Opera+4.01++[en]
> Lynx/2.8.2rel.1+libwww-FM/2.14
>
> Platforms that are not Windows or Mac:
>
> Mozilla/4.73+[en]+(X11;+U;+Linux+2.2.16+i686;+Nav)
> Mozilla/4.72+[en]+(X11;+I;+SunOS+5.7+sun4u)
> Mozilla/4.7+[en]+(X11;+I;+FreeBSD+3.4-STABLE+i386;+Nav)
> Mozilla/4.07C-SGI+[en]+(X11;+I;+IRIX+6.5+IP20)
>
> People writing their own bots in perl or tcl:
>
> Tcl+http+client+package+2.3
> libwww-perl/5.47
> LWP::Simple/5.36
>
> Who knows????
>
> Lexicus+Chocolate+Corpus+Constructor
> SpaceBison/0.01+[fu]+(Win67;+X;+ShonenKnife)
> RepoMonkey+Bait+&+Tackle/v1.01
>
> All these are actual examples from our July logs. Once you subtract the
> Netscape/MSIE/Windows/Mac lines, the rest seems to be a consistent 5% of
> external users of our site. (Yet another reason to write HTML to the W3C
> standards, rather than for either Netscape or IE...maybe I should put a
> button on our site that says "SpaceBison compatible!")
>
> --Charles Gimon
>   Web Coordinator
>   Minneapolis Public Library
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stéphane Dudart [mailto:dudart at bse.ucl.ac.be]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2000 4:42 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] user agent log file - unknown platform and Other
> agents
>
>
> Dear list,
>
> In our detailed User agent records we find hits for "Unknown platform" and
> "Other agents". What can we find with these two elements? Robots for
"Other
> agents"?
>
> Thank you
>
> Stéphane