On Sep 11, 2008, at 5:27 AM, John Musbach wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 5:07 AM, Jellore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Can anyone please help me answer this question ? Do the details below >> represent the someone using the same machine and/or operating system. > > No That would have to be amended to 'probably not', since user agent strings can be modified at will by the end user. It really depends on the end user. Safari 3 even comes with the prefs choice in the GUI to select the Develop menu which will let you select any of a number of user agent strings, even to creating a custom one. Therefore this can not be used to absolutely ID an OS or even the end user browser software. People routinely switch their browser user agent string to deal, for example, with poorly coded websites which make stupid assumptions about the UA string. There are tools that will allow you to fingerprint an OS remotely, but use of those against systems not your own is generally considered a hostile act by sysadmins. Someone starts banging on my network with NMap that way, I'll want to find out why. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as well as Apple eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
