On Wed Feb 27 18:03 +0200, Buchan Milne wrote:
> 
> 
> Leon Brooks wrote:
> >On Wednesday 27 February 2002 23:54, Levi Ramsey wrote:
> >
> >>Have you tried Opera's browser spoofing (it can masquerade as IE 5 for
> >>Windows)?
> >>
> >
> >Konqueror features per-site identity spoofing as well as per-site cookies 
> >(bin, take, ask). In the menu: Settings, Configure, User-Agent.
> >
> >Cheers; Leon
> >
> 
> Yay, thus icreasing the browsing stats for IE, and providing no 
> motivation for sites to support standards: "Everyone accessing this site 
> uses IE, even the users who were using wierd browsers under linux last 
> month", and allowing people to say linux isn't used on the desktop, 
> based on browser stats.

That's the very reason that I do not as a matter of course use such
spoofing.  But there are cases where it's needed.  I generally try to
email the admin of the site to inform him of the error of his ways...

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Levi Ramsey
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