Off Topic: RE Avoiding Exploiter

["J. R. Fox" jr_fox@xxxxxxxxxx]

Emery Snyder wrote:

> well, firebird is a variant of mozilla, so if the site won't recognize
> mozilla-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.


Jordan