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Re: Faked Browser with Mozilla Firebird



on Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 10:21:45PM +0000, Clive Menzies (clive@clivemenzies.co.uk) wrote:

> I'm intrigued..... why would you want to do this?  I understand Opera
> does it because MS had found a way to lock them out of certain sites.
> Is this also a problem for Mozilla?

    http://twiki.iwethey.org/Main/UserAgentString

    The user-agent string has been the source of many of the Web's worst
    ills. It's strongly encouraged that it be done away with in a way
    that encourages better practices from site authors. 

    ....


Peace.

-- 
Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com>        http://kmself.home.netcom.com/
 What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand?
  Information is not power after all: Old-fashioned power is power. If you
  aren't big industry or government, you have very little power. Once they've
  hacked the electronic voting system, you'll have no power at all.
  - Robert X. Cringely

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