Joe Doe
Wed, 24 Sep 2003 21:34:11 -0700
Friday, September 19, 2003, 4:52:00 PM, I wrote: ayr> Anybody from russian accmailers knows why Stuttgart refuses to download binary files from ayr> [anythin'].by.ru ayr> while Trieste does the job right even without XBASE option? ayr> For example http://tinyware.by.ru/zip/bpv.zip (30kb) Through trial and error, answer was found. Thay track not regerring page, but User Agent. (probably in an attempt to get hardcore downloaders off their sites) After I changed browser identification string with the help of AdMuncher utility, I no more could download this file online in MSIE. that makes me think that Trieste www4mail puts something legitimate for most webservers into User-Agent field (like MSIE/Mozilla/Netscape) while Stuttgart probably, fairly admits "Yes I am Lynx and nonstandard one" I guess, an advice to all who is busy coding a webmail server of their own would be: "make your bots pretend to be MSIE" -- Best regards, accmailer my autoresponder lives here frobot # bigfoot.com To get SpamPal v1.50release mail there with subject SPAMPAL.RELEASE To get SpamPal v1.51beta mail there with subject SPAMPAL.BETA To get AdMuncher v4.50 mail there with subject AD.MUNCHER ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ACCMAIL Info (automatically generated) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To UNSUBscribe: Send UNSUBSCRIBE ACCMAIL to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To get the ACCMAIL FAQ: Send e-mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and enter only this line in the BODY of the note: send usenet/news.answers/internet-services/access-via-email ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~