[ale] Silly browser strings

[mike at trausch.us]

On 02/10/2012 12:37 PM, Pat Regan wrote:
> I have a few thousand hits claiming to be from Windows 98 machines on my
> blog's web server over the past few years.  The vast majority of them
> are trying to hit nonexistent things, like cpanel and phpmyadmin.  
> 
> They're probably just script kiddies or bots or something looking for
> broken/misconfigured software.

I figured I would go ahead and check mine.  Interesting:

mike.trausch.us:80 82.193.109.249 - - [09/Feb/2012:17:35:57 -0500] "GET
/blog/2009/03/03/default-reserved-space-is-too-much-these-days/
HTTP/1.0" 200 25650
"http://mike.trausch.us/blog/2009/03/03/default-reserved-space-is-too-much-these-days/"
"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Update a; AOL 6.0; Windows 98)"

Seriously?  That was an article on ext{2,3,4} filesystems.  No Windows
user needs that information... wait, does my site even *render* on MSIE 6?

alltray.trausch.us:80 212.87.184.153 - - [10/Feb/2012:12:16:22 -0500]
"GET /wiki/Documentation/Man_Page HTTP/1.0" 404 512
"http://alltray.trausch.us/wiki/Documentation/Man_Page" "Mozilla/4.0
(compatible; MSIE 6.0; Update a; AOL 6.0; Windows 98)"

Different IP, same signature.  Why would a Windows 98 user with MSIE 6
want information on AllTray's man page?  (And even better: who would go
there?  That wiki was taken down like, oh, two years ago maybe?)

mike.trausch.us:80 91.210.105.229 - - [06/Feb/2012:07:00:46 -0500] "GET
/blog/2008/08/30/on-comcasts-250-gb-transfer-limit/index.php HTTP/1.0"
301 535
"http://mike.trausch.us/blog/2008/08/30/on-comcasts-250-gb-transfer-limit/index.php"
"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90)"

Alright, WTF is *that*?  "Win 9x 4.90"?

Interesting, indeed.

	--- Mike

-- 
A man who reasons deliberately, manages it better after studying Logic
than he could before, if he is sincere about it and has common sense.
                                   --- Carveth Read, “Logic”

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