[Gllug] personal proxies

Jon Masters jonathan at jonmasters.org
Wed Aug 29 13:34:54 UTC 2001


On 29 Aug 2001 10:49:14 +0100, David Damerell wrote:

> 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.

I vary what mine reports as my Browser/OS. Sometimes it'll be a pun on
"2 bit operating system", sometimes "spawn of satan" but always with an
M$/IE joke in there somewhere. I suppose this somewhat negates my
"paranoid" settings in squid since it facilities tracking...oh well :)

--jcm



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