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. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Moderator, Free Software Law Discussion mailing list: http://lists.alt.org/mailman/listinfo/fsl-discuss/
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