so yesterday I added https://prose.nsood.in/hits.json to my blog, which counts requests over the past 24h by web page, by referer, and by user agent

notable user agents:

  • Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10_8_5) AppleWebKit/535.0 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.883.0 Safari/535.0
  • Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; sv-se) AppleWebKit/312.8 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/312.5
  • Mozilla/5.0 (Windows 95; shs-CA; rv:1.9.2.20) Gecko/2229-01-01 10:26:47.701146 Firefox/5.0
  • Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/115
  • Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.01) AppleWebKit/531.38.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Safari/531.38.3
  • Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/534.0 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/34.0.817.0 Safari/534.0
  • Mozilla/5.0 (iPod; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_1 like Mac OS X; fr-CH) AppleWebKit/533.4.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Mobile/8B113 Safari/6533.4.1
  • Opera/8.68.(Windows 95; shs-CA) Presto/2.9.174 Version/12.00
  • Undisclosed/dev

the referers are about what you expect, just a bunch of search engines. mastodon links with rel="noreferer" so I can't tell who's coming from the fediverse probably...

though there is curiously https://korback.info in there, which seems to be a private (as in "need password to even read") wordpress blog?!

thanks guys this is great
@tendstofortytwo added it to my QuiteRSS but I don't see it directly reported. might report the built in browser UA.
@tendstofortytwo i would pull the page up with my palm tungsten e2 with opera mini if it was charged :p
@theking it would fill me with great delight if you did
@tendstofortytwo i can try and plug it in in the morning and pull up the page some time that day
not sure what the user agent looks like for it

@theking well, if you visit my blog, you can check /hits.json and the user agent should be there! the file is publicly readable, not behind a login or anything

lemme know if you do though, would be very fun to see

@tendstofortytwo
looks like the UA is
"Opera/9.80 (J2ME/MIDP; Opera Mini/4.0.9800/191.396; U; en) Presto/2.12.423 Version/12.16"

had to manually specify https to get it to work lol
@tendstofortytwo i was able to read an article, with images loading
although all css and stuff seems to not work lol

@theking very cool!!! thank you for trying

would you be able to share a photo? (no worries if not! I'm just curious how the CSS fails)

@tendstofortytwo i can tonight when i am home
@theking thank you!!
@tendstofortytwo here is that pic

@theking hey, that's some pretty graceful degradation!!!

thank you for sharing!

@tendstofortytwo browsing on this is funny because my phone is pretending to be a Bluetooth modem so it is able to get online, because this is before wifi was built in and wifi sdio cards are really hard to find for these

@theking ooh... I didn't even know Bluetooth modems were a thing O_o

also, how do you get around HTTPS? I think my blog mandates it, it I'm not mistaken?

@tendstofortytwo this supports https i think
opera mini somehow has that work still
its technically semi supported still too, oddly
the built in browser does not work with practically anything
@tendstofortytwo it even has rss feed detection and support for subscribing and viewing? wow
@theking I noticed!! I wonder if there's a reader in there...

@theking that's wild, because lets encrypt uses ciphers new enough that iirc any internet explorer compatible with windows xp would choke on it

I suppose if it's still being updated they could've added modern TLS support... which is incredible

@tendstofortytwo
It is indeed pretty graceful and tidy!

I first read this as degradation as in the kink-flavored kind   

Then I saw that it involved stylesheets, and I quickly simulated some webdev themed scenes before my brain reminded me that "graceful failure" is probably what this meant   

@theking

@h3mmy @theking yes... 😅 forgive this extremely asexual tech nerd who didn't even consider the other meaning lmao

@tendstofortytwo
As a fellow ace nerd, no worries! It's a consequence of me doing scene planning before trying to catch up on Fedi. Brain still in improv mode 😅

@theking