This is an interesting read regarding user agent spoofing (see point 9):
http://webstandardsgroup.org/features/david-storey.cfm


-- Klaus


John Resig schrieb:
>> It is fairly common to spoof or manipulate a browser's user agent
>> string.
> 
> Woah... that's news to me! Especially considering that Safari and
> Opera combined have like 4% of the browser market. I looked at Opera 9
> and it's not immediately apparent how to switch user agents (in that,
> I was looking for it, and I can't find it anywhere). Additionally, in
> Safari you must enable a debug menu on the command-line before you can
> even see the menu to change your user agent.
> 
> I mean, it's something like this:
> Opera and Safari Browser Market >> Number of users who know what a
> "user agent" is >> Number of users who change their user agent >> The
> number of users who leave their user agent changed.
> 
> I mean, I think I'd be generous saying that that's like 10 people --
> in the world.
> 
> Sorry, I had to get that off my chest.
> 
> At least byte-count wise, Corey's fix only adds two characters,
> compressed - which is more than acceptable (IMO).
> 
> --John
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