Re: Off Topic: RE Avoiding Exploiter

[Emery Snyder emerylist@xxxxxxxx]

Opera can certainly be set to pretend to be other browsers (as can
many of the linux ones). Some of the linux ones have a setting for
tweaking what information it sends to the script that asks about
browser: you can have it tell version number, browser, OS, etc., or
tell nothing at all. I can't find a setting in firebird to tweak
this. But since mozilla and firebird are open source, people have
written lots of extensions (plug-ins) for it to give it added
capacities.
http://texturizer.net/firebird/extensions.html

When I get time, I can look to see if anyone has made an extension to
tweak this browser behavior.

Part of me thinks that one should just avoid sites that are coded for
MSIE only (as opposed to following the standards for
HTML/CSS/ECMAScript).

e



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Tuesday, July 22, 2003, 4:16:46 PM, J. wrote:

> 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