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List:       thttpd
Subject:    Re: [THTTPD] DoCoMo and thttpd
From:       Kevin Ying <kevin () yikes ! com>
Date:       2001-08-03 0:11:12
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Greetings, I live in Tokyo and have been using the DoCoMo brand cell
phones for a while.  The web/Internet service that the DoCoMo phones use
is branded i-Mode.

Unfortunately for ISPs who use the referer field for security, the DoCoMo
web proxy does not send the referer along in the request.  Quite annoying.

Also, since these are phones, there's a limit on how much they can d/l as
well as images.  Only GIFs are displayed, AFAIK.  Maybe PNGs but that
depends on if the phone can support color or not.

On Thu, 2 Aug 2001, Jef Poskanzer wrote:

> Hey, is anyone on the list familiar with DoCoMo?  Apparently it's a
> type of cell-phone / web browser device from Japan.  I have suddenly
> started getting a while lot of hits to http://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/
> with various versions of DoCoMo in the user-agent field.  Unfortunately
> the referer field is blank, which makes it difficult to figure out
> why this is happening.  Current working theory is that some server
> run by the DoCoMo company switched over to using thttpd, and I'm getting
> the usual spillover from any 404 pages on their site.  I've seen this
> effect before with large ISPs, but never with such a high volume of hits.
> My bandwidth is pegged to the throttle right now, and they're not even
> fetching the inline images (which by the way means I'm not getting any
> ad impressions from these hits, which is somewhat annoying).
>
> Anyway, info on DoCoMo would be appreciated.


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