Re: Off Topic: RE Avoiding Exploiter

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"J. R. Fox" wrote:
>
> Emery Snyder wrote:
>
> > well, firebird is a variant of mozilla, so if the site won't
> > recognizemozilla-netscape, it probably won't recognize mozilla
> > firebird.
>
> There are some sites that are created to be MSIE-accessible only.
> However, I think there are many more that may have some stricture
> along these lines, but which can be deceived. There was even a special
> Preferences setting created for the still-in-use OS/2 version of Netscape
> (this is very pre-Mozilla, and the line had to be entered manually in a
> specific place, for it to take effect). This setting caused the browser
> to report itself as Windows Netscape, running under Win-95. Mozilla
> exists for various platforms, and Opera, being the new kid in town, must
> have run into this roadblock also. This leads me to wonder whether there
> might be some equivalent trick either of them is using, so that the browser
> identifies itself as some version of IE ? If such a thing exists, it might take
> some digging to uncover it.

I reckon you're right on both counts. Opera 6.01 - via File,
Preferences, Network (!!), Browser Identification - offers to identify
itself as either Opera, IE 5.0 or 3 different versions of Mozilla.
(The current version of Opera is 7 I believe.)

John

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