[Gllug] Bad websites

[Formi]

 Isn't fooling the web servers a bit counter-productive, you are only
 giving them more ammunition for their pathetic excuse "101% of the
 browsers are IE".

 I always check the *nuke based sites for statistics and most of the
 time the most used browser is IE even in the site is only about
 GPL software. Which sounds to me like way too many people are using
 those "get around problem tactics" that solve nothing.

 Formi
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On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, David Pashley wrote:

> David Damerell said, and I quote:
> > On , 21 Feb 2003, Mike Brodbelt wrote:
> > >I hadn't seen this until one of my users at work pointed it out to me -
> > >go to www.marksandspencer.com with Moz, Opera, Netscape 7+, and you get
> > >a silly "unsupported browser" page. While they're hardly the only site
> > >designed by idiots, they do have one of the more brain-damaged redirects
> > >around. Particularly ironic is that they support Netscape 6, but not 7,
> > >or Moz.
> >
> > And if you stop it before the redirect it actually works with a subset
> > of the unblessed browsers, I am informed.
> >
> I am quickly gaining a list of sites to use in konqueror's browser
> identification dialog. I don't know about Mozilla, but konqueror allows
> you to set your browser identification on a per site basis. Not only
> does it change the http headers, but also any javascript stuff too.
>
> I have not yet found a site which uses these tricks which have not then
> worked when fooled by konqueror.
>
> --
> David Pashley
> david at davidpashley.com
> Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione.
>

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