IE 7 & 8

Found in logs

[sem4u]

Found a few references to IE 7 & 8 in some recent log files. IE 7 has been noted in some quarters since August 2002, but IE 8 is a complete mystery (unless it's MSN 8).

Anyone care to eloborate?

[txbakers]

They could be any number of browsers, including Opera 7, Mozilla, Konquerer, which can masquerade as a different browser.

I know in Opera you can even specify your own header string.

[dingman]

Curl and wget, and probably a whole lot of other download agents, also allow you to specify whatever user-agent string you want. My guess with non-existent versions of browsers would be some sort of bot.

[Hester]

However, a letter in the new issue of .net magazine says they have seen a website offering IE7 and 8 for download!

IE7 was supposed to be in the first Windows XP Service Pack, and is surely due any day now. I doubt IE8 exists yet, unless it is a very early alpha.

[Katarn]

I am getting this too in my logs... I don't have 8.0 though... just 7.0 and 7.1 occasionally.

http://www.explosivelabs.com/forums/showthread.php?s=3f3577ba458fb17b2cea1ea93208b809&threadid=632

I thought that the Longhorn Alpha had the 7.0 version... where is the 7.1 coming from?

[edited by: korkus2000 at 2:55 pm (utc) on Feb. 27, 2003]
[edit reason] delinked url [/edit]

[Hester]

Redmond?

[Katarn]

Sorry about the link mods (I didn't know...)

Anyways, Redmond? Not familar... please elaborate...

[choster]

Redmond, Washington State, USA is where the headquarters of Microsoft Corp. is located.

[Katarn]

Whoops.. I thought you were referring to some type of new secret project or something. I thought it was a code name like "Longhorn" or something of that nature...

Could be I suppose.. I guess I have to look at my logs again to cross reference that particular ip address...