On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Dave Watts <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > What would be the advantage of switching the user agent otherwise? I can > > see if maybe a particular site only supported a given browser... would > there > > be others? Just curious. > > You can use it to tell the server to generate code for another > browser, and there are all kinds of uses for that. > > I often do this to see how sites respond to Google Search Appliances, > which send a specific user agent (gsa-crawler). I also do it when > using Experts Exchange - if you identify your browser as Googlebot you > get the content that Google indexes. > OK I'm with you so far... > If you're using Opera, many (poorly-written) sites don't work, so you > may change your user agent to something more common. > ...and now I'm lost :) I'd normally assume that by "don't work" you mean they don't render properly. But with that being the crux of this particular tangent, I'm assuming that's not what you mean. What server side code would be poorly-written enough to "not work" based on the browser? -- I have failed as much as I have succeeded. But I love my life. I love my wife. And I wish you my kind of success. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:318891 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
