Re: Acrobat reader
Florian Kulzer wrote:
> There are websites that check for the presence of the acroread plugin
> before they even give you the chance to download a PDF. This is usually
> a misguided attempt at being user friendly: Someone assumes that the
> visitors cannot handle PDFs without the plugin and that they therefore
> do not want to waste time and bandwidth by downloading any such files.
>
> Turning off javascript should disable the plugin detection routine;
> unfortunately this often breaks other functionality of the website. If
> the approach of the website relies on a redirect then it might be
> possible to foil the scheme with a redirect-blocking plugin. The most
> general solution to this problem is analysing the detection routine and
> devising a specific counter mechanism that leaves the rest of the
> website functional, for example by means of a filtering proxy, a
> targeted adblock rule or a greasemonkey script.
Do you have an example at hand?
Cheers,
Johannes
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