Question about User Agent info
I was curious if it is possible for 2 separate people to have the same User Agent info? I have one person who was banned from our community because they threatened to hack the server etc, so now we have a new member posting with an anonymous proxy (and they are basically trolling the place) , yet this person's User Agent info and browser and OS info are all identical to the person we banned, Is this just a little too coincidental?
(I blocked out some of the IP info
This is the first one (its an anonymizer)
Quote: A visitor from 128.241.(128.241.)
arrived from www.
and visited www.
at 9:48:11 PM on Wednesday, September 18, 2002.
This visitor used Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705).
The second one
Quote:
A visitor from adsl-216-61 (216.61.)
arrived from ,
and visited www.
at 9:47:32 PM on Wednesday, September 18, 2002.
This visitor used Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705).
Thanks for your help
zollet posted this at 19:52 — 20th September 2002.
He has: 1,016 posts
Joined: May 2002
Well, the user agent info can be the same for many users. For example, here is mine:
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; Q312461; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)
Without the "Q312461;" part it's almost the same, so you can't go after that. I wouldn't hesitate banning people that are clearly not good for our community. I don't know what method you're using to banning, but if you need help on banning them from your whole website, let me know.
Pixie posted this at 19:58 — 20th September 2002.
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Joined: Sep 2002
Thank you Saeed, I do have an htaccess file I use to ban ip addresses but we're just trying to get some info so we can call this person on it :csaw: We thought it was kind of coincidental because this *new* person using the anynoymizer is basically defending the other person that we banned :explode: Thanks for your help :jump:
zollet posted this at 21:18 — 20th September 2002.
He has: 1,016 posts
Joined: May 2002
You're more than welcome. I was going to suggest .htaccess banning, but you're already one step ahead of me there
About anonymizer, if people use such service to browse a site, they obviously are going to do something that they shouldn't, otherwise they wouldn't have had the need of hiding.
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