From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jun 10 21:51:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net (harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BD1937B409 for ; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 21:51:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0454.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.199.199] helo=mindspring.com) by harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 17Hdc4-0003cy-00; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 21:50:39 -0700 Message-ID: <3D058120.B47C110F@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 21:48:32 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jeremy C. Reed" Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AvantGo user-agent References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Jeremy C. Reed" wrote: > I've read some about AvantGo, but I have never used it (and I don't use > any handheld computer). > > I've been seeing a lot of AvantGo references in my Apache logs, like > user-agent: > > "Mozilla/3.0 (compatible; AvantGo 3.2)" > > Usually they are from the same (or close) IPs. (And recently, generally > they are requesting the same webpages and linking from Google's new > glossary search.) > > Does anyone here use AvantGo? > > Or does anyone notice a lot of AvantGo in their web server access logs? > > What exactly is this? I don't use it... I don't use wireless PDA's (or PDA's, for that matter). But what you are actually seeing with your clustered IP addresses are the IP addresses of the transcoding proxies that attempt to intelligently reformat the data to take into account the insufficient and miniscule screens of PDA's. You'll see repeat accesses from the same IP addresses for any active content, even if the content is supposedly cacheable, because different clients will end up requesting the same data, so it will appear to come from the same client, which is actually the proxy. If this is an issue for you, then make your content cacheable, and it will greatly cut down on your traffic, as AvantGo serves it to the clients out of cache. IMO, PDA-based web browsing isn't very useful. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message