: Why would someone try viewing the site with unsupported languages? Our site is receiving page views with strange browser locales. The most recent, on Sunday, included the following; vi_VN vi_VI

Our site is receiving page views with strange browser locales. The most recent, on Sunday, included the following;

vi_VN
vi_VI
zh_SG
as_AS
bn_BN
mr_MR
kn_KN
or_OR
ml_ML
pa_PA
pa_IN
pa_PK
ta_TA
te_TE

The UA string is;

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/13.0

We can't see any malicious input being attempted but we don't currently support any locales besides en_GB and en_US. The IP is located in Arizona.

Has anyone experienced this before? If so, what was the motivation behind it?
Is this something I should be concerned about?

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Firefox has the ability to send many languages. This feature is designed such that somebody can specify which language(s) they understand and the web server can choose which to display.

In Firefox this is available under "Preferences" -> "Content" -> "Languages" -> "Choose". It appears that in this case a user has added a ton of languages here. Probably ones that they don't actually speak. I can do the same thing if I want to:

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