Re: Faked Browser with Mozilla Firebird
On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 05:16:33AM +0000, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> 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.
>
> ....
[...]
I've found an example of a problem apparently caused by the
UserAgentString check. I recently switched to Mozilla-firebird, and
found that after the switch, amazon.com wouldn't recognise my password
(kept on the local machine by mozilla). When I changed the
UserAgentString to plain Mozilla using the User Agent Switcher,
everything worked. I've written to amazon suggesting they change
their ways; we'll see what happens.
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