[Gllug] Wierd UserAgent string in apache access_log

[Bruce Richardson]

On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 11:04:46PM +0000, will wrote:
> I have noticed a couple of these wierd access log entries:
> 
> 61.103.86.71 - - [27/Nov/2003:00:38:03 +0100] "GET 
> /humour-direct-banner2.jpg HTTP/1.1" 200 4690 
> "http://www.humordirect.com/links/" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; 
> Windows 98; \xbe\xc6\xc6\xae\xb9\xcc\xb5\xf0\xbe\xee)"
> 
> Of particular interest is the string:
> 
> \xbe\xc6\xc6\xae\xb9\xcc\xb5\xf0\xbe\xee

Those are hexidecimal digits.  Possibly the string is in some exotic
charset and being rendered like this in your logs.

-- 
Bruce

Bitterly it mathinketh me, that I spent mine wholle lyf in the lists
against the ignorant.  -- Roger Bacon, "Doctor Mirabilis"
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