Netscape 8.x?

Saw Netscape 8.x in logs

[richlowe]

Today I found a user agent of "Netscape 8" in my logs. I have not heard that netscape has come out with V8 yet - any ideas?

Richard Lowe

[lazerzubb]

Probably not, just someone who mixed there USER_AGENT it's not that hard to do.

(edited by: lazerzubb at 8:01 am (utc) on May 9, 2002)

[DrDoc]

Or, most likely an Alpha version of Netscape 8.

You know, I had NN6 in my logs over a year before the first beta was released for download on their website ..

[scotty]

Probably not likely to be an alpha version of Netscape 8, since Netscape never advertises itself in USER_AGENT string as "Netscape" - it always says "Mozilla", and even NN6 logs as Mozila/5.

[joshie76]

NN6 does say Netscape6 in it's UA though, doesn't it? At the end?

[Son_House]

I knew I have seen this before so I checked the logs and it was just listed as Mozilla/8.0 Only seen it twice and that was over a year ago. Both times from the same place in Canada.

NN6 does say Netscape6 in it's UA though, doesn't it? At the end?

This is what we get:

"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010726 Netscape6/6.1"

[DrDoc]

Well, the NN6 Alpha showed itself as NN6 (it actually even said Mozilla/6)

Anyway ..

[Son_House]

Found two more Mozilla/8.0 in yesterdays logs, this time not from Canada. Made only two requests for the h/p. The ip goes to a Malaysia se.

202.160.235.114
jenny.catcha.com/

Both times in the same second, this also appeared: www.catcha.com.my/cgi-bin/redirectcapture.cgi?url=http://www.oursite.com/ which is what we see when we mouse over the serp listings. The ip for this referrer is:

203.106.26.65
netsec.kdu.edu.my

The ua for this one was "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98)" and looks like a real user as they also requested css and image files.