Mozilla user agent?

[domin2]

Can someone kindly explain what a mozilla agent is? thanks

[vincevincevince]

When you, or a bot, visits a website, it leaves as it visits information about your browser, or what the bot is. This information is the User Agent.

Mozilla (http://mozilla.org) is a popular open source browser with a lot in common with Netscape (although Netscape has less in common with Mozilla ;-))

[domin2]

so if im getting mozilla within my logs thats the actual place they are coming from? sorry newbie here

[vincevincevince]

No, that means that visitors to your site are using Mozilla as their browser. Just as Internet Explorer user agent indicates visitors are using IE as their browser.

[domin2]

thanks

[borisbaloney]

Vince your answer is correct but not quite complete.

Domin2 you may see a user agent that includes the word mozilla without being the mozilla browser. The this user agent for example:

Mozilla/5.0 (Platform; Security; OS-or-CPU; Localization; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02

While it does have the name Mozilla in it, it is actually the Netscape browser. Depending on what you are trying to do with your site this destinction may be important.

[Netizen]

Almost all browsers start with something like

Mozilla/4.0

For example:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; MSN 2.5; Windows 98)
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; AOL 7.0; Windows 95; Supplied by blueyonder)

which are IE6 and IE5.5 respectively