The useragent tag has no wiki summary.
0
votes
2answers
55 views
How can I block a user agent from all sites on my server?
I originally this posted at webmasters.stackexchange.com, but was told I'd get a better reception here.
For the last few days, I've been suffering from what appears to be a (presumably inadvertent) ...
0
votes
3answers
203 views
nginx not blocking user agents
I have this in my .conf file for my website in attempt to block 2 user agents from constantly probing my server.
## Block http user agent - morpheus fucking scanner ##
if ($http_user_agent ~* ...
0
votes
0answers
81 views
Practical Nginx configuration based on user agent
Could you please suggest some practical nginx configuration relying on $http_user_agent to rewrite/proxy differently in these scenarios:
All modern client browsers - I would render all html on the ...
0
votes
0answers
29 views
LTMM User Agent
My Apache error_log has a lot of client side (logged via ajax) errors coming from a user agent that identifies itself as LTMM. I've tried a few searches, and it points to the direction of Internet ...
0
votes
3answers
103 views
How can I test for a URLs existeance before redirecting to it?
I am using Apache's mod_rewrite to redirect mobile users to my mobile site based on their http_user_agent. However not all pages have a mobile equivalent. Also mobile pages end in .html and "full" ...
-3
votes
1answer
113 views
.htaccess user agents and website security [closed]
I have been looking around and trying to work out the best way to protect a few websites of mine.
Appart from the obvious manual monitoring of the site logs and banning extreme/suspicious activity. I ...
-1
votes
2answers
270 views
Please deconstruct a user agent string for me
Okay I give up. Given the user agent string below, which browser is being used? It might be IE8, since I can't envision firefox sending this. If it is IE8, why the hell is the "Mozilla" string in ...
0
votes
1answer
705 views
NGINX MIME TYPE
I have my nginx conf file so that when ever a mobile device visits my site the url gets rewritten to m.mysite.com I did it by adding the following
set $mobile_rewrite do_not_perform;
if ...
31
votes
1answer
4k views
illegitimate traffic from user agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
This is a rapidly changing event that has no answer yet.
Please do not post your findings or assumptions as answers; reserve
the answer field for when you actually have an answer.
If ...
1
vote
1answer
152 views
Access Logs - Useragent changes after first request
Has anyone noticed Internet Explorer useragents changing in their access logs?
- - 12.345.6.789 - - [24/Feb/2012:15:59:59 -0800] "GET HTTP/1.1" 200 4759 "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT ...
0
votes
2answers
2k views
How to create .htaccess and block UserAgent libwww-perl?
I have been testing my website with a SEO checkup tool and one of the warnings I got was this:
Your server appears to allow access from User-agent Libwww-perl.
Botnet scripts that automatically ...
1
vote
2answers
173 views
How is a User Agent passed along from a load balancer?
I have an application that sits behind an F5 load balancer. The application needs to be aware of the User Agent and IP address of the inital request.
For example:
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 ...
1
vote
1answer
335 views
Serve different files for specific user agents using nginx
Using nginx, how do you serve different static files for different user agents? For example, if the current user is using an iPhone, they should be served mobile_index.html, whereas all other user ...
1
vote
1answer
138 views
What is a SIP B2BUA, and how is it different from a UA?
I've been reading some stuff SIP related, and I'm confused, about what is a SIP back-to-back user agent(B2BUA) and a 'normal' user agent?
Can anyone explain the differences?
From what I read I ...
1
vote
2answers
2k views
check several user agent in nginx
I need to redirect the traffic to one backend or another according to the user-agent. Is that the right thing to do ?
server {
listen 80;
server_name my_domain.com;
if ...
1
vote
2answers
812 views
Search Engine Bot - Large amount of hits
I've started tracking user-agent strings on a website at the start of each session. Looking at the data for this month so far I'm seeing on search engine bot that keeps coming up a lot..
Mozilla/5.0 ...
2
votes
2answers
1k views
Blocking by user-agent string in httpd.conf not effective
I'd like to block some spiders and bad bots by user-agent text string for all of my virtual hosts via httpd.conf but have yet to find success. Below are the contents of my http.conf file. Any ideas ...
3
votes
2answers
383 views
The Java/1.4.1_04 user agent clashes (404) with some jQuery / Javascript
Since I put up a new javascript file on my server a few days ago I've been getting strange 404's logs. It seems that some Java user-agent clashes with some part of the jQuery (1.6.2). I send an ...
1
vote
2answers
241 views
User agent blacklist recommended
Perishable Press publishes a managed user agent blacklist frequently, which blocks bad bots which htaccess directives.
Article to be found here: ...
0
votes
1answer
245 views
Help With Adding Mobile User Agent Exceptions To Varnish-Cache
This is the code I've added to the vcl file, so that it caches content for desktop users and mobile users separately:
if (req.http.User-Agent ~ ...
1
vote
2answers
57 views
Access log Explanation
I am some what new to access_log and just started monitoring it for one of my new sites. The questions I have, is when viewing via -f tail, this is the average output:
000.000.000.000 - - ...
2
votes
1answer
131 views
Contional declaration in Apache httpd
We want to be able to set Cache-Control headers based on User-Agent in Apache
For example, if a User-Agent contains substring foo we want to set Cache-Control to 10 minutes. But if not set it to 1 ...
2
votes
0answers
170 views
Vanilla .Net 4.0 website cannot identify some AppleWebKit based browsers
We are seeing some Safari browsers failing to cross-authenticate our website after we upgrade to .net 4.0 from .net 3.5.
After much investigation, it turns out to be a problem with ASP.Net ...
2
votes
2answers
2k views
Blocking apache access via user agent string
I've got a scripter who is using a proxy to attack a website I'm serving.
I've noticed that they tend to access the site via software with a certain common user agent string (i.e. ...
0
votes
2answers
438 views
Analyse a set of User-Agent strings
I have a list of User-Agent strings and timestamp. I also have a unique identifier for the user.
What is the best tool for analyzing this type of data?
2
votes
1answer
233 views
Using .htaccess to exclude all user-agents for private site
In regards to a website that you want to keep private, in a situation where you can't restrict/allow to ip's for your users and password protection cannot be implemented. But you can have your users ...
0
votes
2answers
298 views
What is a Looking Glass server?
I keep getting requests in my Apache logs from a bot with the user agent AppEngine-Google; (+http://code.google.com/appengine; appid: lookingglass-server) I understand that this is a looking glass ...
0
votes
1answer
244 views
Extracting Browser from user agent in SQL
I have a database of user agents that I need extract all of the unique browsers from in SQL. The field is like...
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 ...
1
vote
1answer
277 views
Browser user agent string with all 0s
I've had 2 mac users hit my site today, and both their browser user agents were:
Mozilla/5.0 (000000000; 0; 00000 000 00 0 000000; 00000) DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD DDDDDDD DDDD DDDDDD DDDDDDDDDDDDD ...
