On 9 Dec 2009 at 11:00, Sherry Abercrombie wrote:
> So I'm clicking on a link for a Microsoft KB article sent to me by
> Sunbelt support pertaining to Windows 2000 & 2003 Server OS from my pc.
> The top of the screen has this rather interesting message on it: "This
> article applies to a different version of Windows than the one you are
> using. Content in this article may not be relevant to you.
> Visit the Windows XP Solution Center"
>
> Kinda scary I think......
Not at all. If you change your browser's UserAgent you can fool the web server
into thinking you're anything, including an iPhone or the GoogleBot (this last
one is very useful for reading news sites which require accounts -- they almost
all let the GoogleBot in).
If you're curious about what your browser is divulging, go here:
Whats My User Agent?
http://whatsmyuseragent.com/
Firefox has a nice add-on that makes changing your UA on the fly trivial.
User Agent Switcher
http://chrispederick.com/work/user-agent-switcher/
My default UA is
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102
Firefox/3.5.5
But I can also "be" a Mac:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-GB; rv:1.7.10)
Gecko/20050717 Firefox/1.0.7
or even a Palm Pre:
Mozilla/5.0 (webOS/1.0; U; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.27.1 (KHTML, like Gecko)
Version/1.0 Safari/525.27.1 Pre/1.0
HTH!
Angus
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