Brief UA's

[wilderness]

A few days ago, I grew tired of these very brief UA's
EX:
Mozilla/3.01 (compatible;)

Adding them to my SetEnvIf.
Please note how fast the visitor changed the UA?
TWO (2) seconds.
I'm not sure that this could be done automatically by a browser or software. More like a script or perhaps a refresh button on the toolbar.
In any event, I'm going to deny the range as well.
This Colo IP been a thorn for some time

207.174.178.20 - - [09/Oct/2003:16:07:17 -0700] "GET /myimgae.jpg HTTP/1.0" 403 - "-" "Mozilla/3.01 (compatible;)"
207.174.178.20 - - [09/Oct/2003:16:07:17 -0700] "GET /mypage.htm HTTP/1.0" 200 20871 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)"
207.174.178.20 - - [09/Oct/2003:16:07:17 -0700] "GET /myimgae2.gif HTTP/1.0" 403 - "-" "Mozilla/3.01 (compatible;)"
207.174.178.20 - - [09/Oct/2003:16:07:17 -0700] "GET /myimgae3.gif HTTP/1.0" 403 - "-" "Mozilla/3.01 (compatible;)"
207.174.178.20 - - [09/Oct/2003:16:07:17 -0700] "GET /myimgae4.gif HTTP/1.0" 403 - "-" "Mozilla/3.01 (compatible;)"
207.174.178.20 - - [09/Oct/2003:16:07:19 -0700] "GET /myimage1.jpg HTTP/1.0" 200 1162 "http://www.mysite.com/mypage.htm" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)"
207.174.178.20 - - [09/Oct/2003:16:07:20 -0700] "GET /myimgae2.gif HTTP/1.0" 200 2457 "http://www.mysite.com/mypage.htm" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)"
207.174.178.20 - - [09/Oct/2003:16:07:20 -0700] "GET /myimgae3.gif HTTP/1.0" 200 2567 "http://www.mysite.com/mypage.htm" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)"
207.174.178.20 - - [09/Oct/2003:16:07:20 -0700] "GET /myimgae4.gif HTTP/1.0" 200 1528 "http://www.mysite.com/mypage.htm" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)"

Colorado Internet Cooperative Association NETBLK4-COOP-NET (NET-207-174-0-0-1)
207.174.0.0 - 207.174.255.255
Peakto Peak Internet PEAKPEAK-177-NET (NET-207-174-177-0-1)
207.174.177.0 - 207.174.178.255

[FineWare]

You need to be careful. That UA is typically used by an ISP's web cache.

[wilderness]

Many thanks.
It is appearing that is applicable tp AOL.

[BlueSky]

How do you know that's associated with an ISP's web cache? Is there a reference somewhere that explains which UA strings are valid or are you basing this on experience?

[wilderness]

BlueSky,
It's his experience and my oversight.
After he mentioned it, I recalled it being discussed previously.

If there is any place on the web for referecne in complete detail of cache and proxy servers?
I sure haven't found it.
There are bits and pieces of reference however, no detail,

[BlueSky]

Damn, too bad.