guideline for name-based web hosting justification

Tracking browsers....
Yes we did and we were amazed with the results.
In fact we still dont believe them....

Where is Netscape?...this is a sampling too!!

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; AOL 5.0; Windows 98;
DigExt)  16605 (26.2%)  176388k (34.0%)
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 4.0)  4288
(6.8%)  8060k (1.6%)
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; AOL 5.0; Windows 95;
DigExt)  3675 (5.8%)  38714k (7.5%)
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows NT; DigExt)  3477
(5.5%)  11312k (2.2%)
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt)  2500
(3.9%)  13682k (2.6%)
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; AOL 5.0; Windows 98)
2051 (3.2%)  21238k (4.1%)
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; AOL 4.0; Windows 98;
DigExt)  1906 (3.0%)  19527k (3.8%)
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; MSN 2.5; AOL 5.0; Windows
98; DigExt)  1282 (2.0%)  13459k (2.6%)
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows 95)  1146 (1.8%)
6325k (1.2%)
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows NT)  1009 (1.6%)
5864k (1.1%)
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; AOL 5.0; Windows 98)  870
(1.4%)  9029k (1.7%)
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 95; DigExt)  784
(1.2%)  4484k (0.9%)
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; AOL 4.0; Windows 98)
778 (1.2%)  7224k (1.4%)
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Mac_PowerPC)  766 (1.2%)
1076k (0.2%)
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; AOL 5.0; Windows 98;
Compaq; DigExt)  630 (1.0%)  8262k (1.6%)
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows 98)  618 (1.0%)
3459k (0.7%)
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98)  586 (0.9%)
3224k (0.6%)
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows 98)  548 (0.9%)
2893k (0.6%)
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT)  534 (0.8%)
3060k (0.6%)
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; AOL 4.0; Windows 95)
486 (0.8%)  5205k (1.0%)

Sincerely,


Peter Schroebel

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mury" <mury at goldengate.net>
To: "Jon Rust" <hostmaster at vcnet.com>
Cc: "Alec H. Peterson" <ahp at hilander.com>; "Matt Bailey"
<mbailey at journey.net>; <arin-discuss at arin.net>;
<ppml at arin.net>
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 1:02 PM
Subject: Re: guideline for name-based web hosting
justification



> You're bending the truth here, quite a bit actually. The
HTTP 1.0 proto
> may not support the Host: header, but browsers that are
using HTTP 1.0
> may very well support he Host: header. Oh, i don't know, a
smallish
> browser called Netscape, v 2.0 or better, comes to mind.
Grepping
> through my access log for today I see over 65,000 1.0
requests. 98% of
> those are to name-based virtual hosts (which is almost all
i run
> anymore), and they all worked.
>
> jon


Good to know.  Finally someone takes the time to correct me
and not just
call me a whiner.

So, does anyone know a reliable source that keeps track of
stats on
browsers?  If it isn't 50% that won't get to the web site,
is it
10%? 5%? .0001%?

Thanks.

Mury
GoldenGate Internet Services