On 5 Jul 2001, at 12:18, Douglas J. Hunley boldly uttered:
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> On Thursday 05 July 2001 12:09, Auyeung at Technet babbled:
> > Playing with Konqueror.
> > What is this useragent for?
> > IS it used to disguise as another user or what?
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> its for those sites that say "you need Internet Explorer or Netscape to view
> this site". Just make Konqueror pretend to be one of those browsers on that
> site...
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> it "tricks" the browser detection code on the site in question
Opera has been able to do that for quite a while. (actually IE was
the first browser to play that game -- it masqueraded as Netscape and
started this whole thing)
The problem is, regardless whether you change the User-Agent string,
there are fundamental differences in HTML parsing with particular
browsers so it still won't work right in many cases - ie because they
are putting code in the page that is proprietary to IE/Netscape, or
specific workarounds to things like CSS rendering bugs etc.
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Philip J. Koenig [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium
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