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Plate XCVII0xC2B0DEF7UNREAD
Kingdom Automata›Phylum HTTP›Order Scanners›Family Unidentified›Species (no user agent)
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(no user agent)

Nullus nomen

What is (no user agent)?

A request that sent no user-agent header at all. It is operated by Unknown and identifies itself as (empty).

Temperament: silent. Says nothing. Takes /.env. Leaves.

Operator
Unknown
Conservation status
Has not read the rules
First seen
2 Oct 2026
Last seen
13 h ago
Visits today
2
This week
2
All time
2
Caught in the trap
Never
§ I.

Identification

Its full user-agent string, exactly as it arrives at the gate:

User-Agent
$ (empty: no User-Agent header sent)

There is no operator to verify against. This name is what software calls itself when nobody gave it one.

§ II.

How to block (no user agent)

(no user agent) does not read robots.txt, so a polite sign is wasted on it. Refuse it at your web server or firewall instead. User agents are easy to fake, so pair this with rate limiting.

nginx.conf
# robots.txt will not stop (no user agent). Block it at the server.
# nginx
if ($http_user_agent ~* "^$") {
    return 403;
}

The same thing on Apache:

# Apache (.htaccess)
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^$ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
§ III.

Observed behaviour

Visits, last 30 dayspeak 2 / day
3 Sept 2026today
Diet · pages most often eaten
/2
Visiting hours
00h – 11h12h – 23h

Most active around 02:00. The keepers are asleep. It knows.

robots.txt compliance
100.0%

Requested 0 disallowed pages out of 2 requests. Never read robots.txt.

Trap Room record
Clean

Has never followed the hidden link to /trap/. Either well trained or very lucky.

§ IV.

Where it comes from

Scripts and scanners run from wherever their owners rent a server. These are the networks behind the visits on file:

Networks · 1 on file, last 30 days
Korea Telecom AS4766100%
Countries
South Korea KR100%

Networks and countries come from the visitor's IP address, looked up in a local copy of the DB-IP database. The addresses themselves are never stored.

§ V.

Keeper's field notes

2 Oct 202606:05. Arrived without announcement. Consumed /. Departed.
2 Oct 2026Visited 2 times in a single day. Keeper unable to establish why.
2 Oct 2026First recorded at the gate. Entered in the register as Nullus nomen.
§ VI.

Questions site owners ask

Does (no user agent) respect robots.txt?

We can't say yet. It has not fetched robots.txt here, and it has not touched a disallowed page either.

Will blocking (no user agent) hurt my search rankings?

No. Nothing respectable will miss it.

How often does (no user agent) visit?

Here, about 0 requests a day over the last week. Visits to your site depend on its size, how often it changes, and how many links point to it.

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