My new hit counter

[Gooseberry Clock]

It would appear that Bravenet has trouble recognizing the lesser known browsers and OSes. This is why I have written my own hit counter in Perl, which I have been running for about a week now. If you click on the Which? logo below, you will see a list of the most popular browsers and OSes used by the viewers of this board, which at the moment is Windows XP and IE 6.

Thoughts?

[ July 11, 2002: Message edited by: * Red Ranger Software * ]

[Refalm]

I guess... this thread on the Clock Crew forum rules  

[Calum]

they sound like they have their arses screwed on too tight. I was going to post explaining it to them, but fuck who cares?

Goosey, if a lot of people visiting a site use winXP and internet exploder, then this means simply that a load of morons and dumb rich kids visit that site. I clicked your which link, and i must say the counter looks to me like mozilla and opera all the way. Have i misread the table? if so how and why?

[Gooseberry Clock]

All browsers except Opera identify themselves as Mozilla for some strange reason. Check between the brackets.

[ June 12, 2002: Message edited by: Gooseberry Clock ]

[Calum]

sounds like a big steaming pile of horseshit to me, pal, IE identifies as IE full stop, some netscapes identify as mozilla i think, some as netscape, mozilla identifies as itself, Opera can identify as IE, mozilla or Opera, but the default is IE for some moronic reason, but it appends the word Opera so you can tell if you look which one it is. So i suspect that yr counter is gash.

[Gooseberry Clock]

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

[Calum]

yes thanks for that, i can read you know, but what i'm saying (and what you miss completely) is that if everything identifies as mozilla, except opera, then you have fucked up when you wrote the counter.

I don't know a thing about Perl or about how a browser identifies but even i can see that!

[Master of Reality]

konqueror can also identify itself as using any OS (including all versions of windows) and any Browser.

[Master of Reality]

I wonder what it would identify the staroffice browser as..... Probably Mozilla, just like everything else. It seems that Mozilla must be the most popular browser; Nah... Its just that he is full of shit and his damn thing doesnt work.

[Kintaro]

Yes that is sad....   did you see the hits with that
XChaos browser.... thats me in arachne.
And a Win16 hit is there too. (Also me in Win31 with Netscape 3)

[Master of Reality]

that must have been you at www.bobhub.cjb.net using the netscape 3 browser.

[preacher]

quote:Originally posted by Gooseberry Clock:
All browsers except Opera identify themselves as Mozilla for some strange reason. Check between the brackets.

[ June 12, 2002: Message edited by: Gooseberry Clock ]

Well my Konquerer identifies like this:
**.**.*.*** - - [13/Jun/2002:13:58:44 -0400] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 304 - "-" "-"

Links identifies like this:
**.**.*.*** - - [13/Jun/2002:14:21:33 -0400] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 6369 "-" "Links (0.97pre3; Linux 2.4.18-6mdk i686)"

Lynx identifies like this:
**.**.*.*** - - [13/Jun/2002:14:21:48 -0400] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 6369 "-" "Lynx/2.8.5dev.3 libwww-FM/2.14 SSL-MM/1.4.1 OpenSSL/0.9.6c"

So as you can see not all browsers identify as Mozilla.

[voidmain]

I have my Konqueror set to identify like this:

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.0.0-10; Linux)

However, you can set it to whatever you want easily, and there are also 17 presets on the "Tools->Browser Identification" menu that you can pick from.

[Master of Reality]

when i use konqueror i have it set not to identify itself ad anything... I like not to be categorized.

[Gooseberry Clock]

1000 addresses now listed. Let's see which browser & OS are the most popular:

http://rrs.home9.dk3.com/cgi-bin/list.cgi

This doesn't take a genius. And the rest of you, please upgrade your software to the latest version.