[Gllug] personal proxies

[will]

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Damerell" <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk>
To: <gllug at linux.co.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 10:49 AM
Subject: [Gllug] personal proxies


> 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_.

Opera on Linux has the ability to fake UA, as it does in doze.  However, on
doze it defaults to identify itself as MSIE...

Will.


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