What are " anonymous " users in jira ?

[Vickey Lepcha]

Some log patterns that I see in my JIRA instance has users : anonymous , what exactly are these users ?

example :

2015-06-18 09:07:44,884 ajp-bio-8009-exec-79 INFO anonymous 547x66030x1 - 10.3.6.47 /browse/JC [jira.projects.web.BrowseProject] Specified project id to browse, but it is diff to current project.  Most prob a permission violation (or it doesn't exist)

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

They are hits from people who have not yet logged in.  JIRA doesn't know who they are because they have not told it.

[Vickey Lepcha]

Hey Nic - you mean something like this ; A user has a hyperlink to some particular issue or project - he just accesses it using the url before logging in ?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Yes. Spot on.