Actually, I suspect that won't fix anything. I don't know a lot of REBOL,
but I do know some about HTML & HTTP. The User-Agent field is usually used
for browser detection, as you obviously know.
The problem with claiming to be Mozilla compatible is that then some sites
(badly written sites - but that is quite a lot) expect you have Javascript
and they dynamically generate content using document.write('stuff'') or
whatever it is.
The problem is that the browser is expected to interprate that, so (for
instance), a link may not be visible in the raw HTML code - and in fact may
require user input to be generated
The frames issues will definatly not be fixed by pretending to be Mozilla -
as has been previously pointed out. You simply need to parse the <FRAME
SRC=> tag to get the links to each document.
Having said that, being able to define User-Agent would be a good thing, if
only to be able to monitor how sites behave with different browsers.
Regards
Nick Lothian
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> Sterling wrote:
> > That's because the web world has somehow arrived at the conclusion
> that any browser not identifying itself as Mozilla is totally incapable
> of certain things.
> > I've put in an enhancement request for changing the default
> User-Agent field in HTTP requests.
>
> Actually, that won't fix Kat's problem, but it will fix other
> people's
> problems. Thanks for doing so! ^_^
>
> Andrew Martin
> I'm being nitpicky...
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