[Gllug] personal proxies

[David Damerell]

On Wednesday, 29 Aug 2001, will wrote:
>Someone posted something a while back that gave me this idea.  How possible
>do you think it would be to install a personal proxy on my work machine
>(winNT, not my fault) that is connected to the firewall via dhcp, that could
>change the information available about my computer so that websites saw that
>I was using Linux and something like mozilla?

Most personal proxies can fake up User-Agent.

This is curious, though; a lot of people are faking User-Agent to
pretend to be M$IE in order to get around braindead Webshites. You'll
find that (nearly?) all non-IE browsers (except Netscape) have an
option to fake up User-Agent.

As a side issue, this means that whenever anyone tries to tell you
that '85%' of browsers are M$IE, they are a fool; they don't know and
_neither does anyone else_.

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David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?

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