on Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 12:57:46AM -0800, Martin J. Hillyer (mlhillyer@comcast.net) wrote:
> 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.
Never said the change won't cause problems. However the problems are
indicative of the greater problem: reliance on user-agent to
differnetiate service. Which I'm pointedly attempting to draw sites'
attention to.
Peace.
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