Peter Ford-4 wrote:
>
>>
>> I was all ready to jump on Point #6 to disagree until I read the
>> next paragraph, updating that with the correct information. PHP can
>> find out the OS of the system on which the browser is running.
>>
>
> Strictly speaking, PHP can only find out what the browser tells it - that
> includes the OS. I could quite easily hack the browser info string sent by
> (at
> least one of) my browsers to pretend I was using some horrible Windows
> rubbish...
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That's true... if you use ie; konquerer, and adjust settings as "send no
identification", then php script has nothing to determine browser type, OS
etc. etc. The other way to hide identification + ip address is to use proxy
servers, which is very common nowadays.
Regards,
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