On Sun, 6 May 2001, Anh Tu Vu wrote:

> telnet to port 80 of a site and use GET / HTTP/1.0 , i get a different
> web page from using IE to get to that site. Did the site use a proxy
> server to analyze HTTP  header and return a page upon the header ?

Or, possibly (since you at least didn't mention otherwise), the site has
some simple javascript/php/perl/asp/whatever script determining the
browser used, and then redirects the user to pages created for that
browser. It isn't too uncommon.

        .pi.

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