On Tue, 5 Aug 2014, at 12:12 PM, Ted Roche wrote:
> Changing the User Agent for a browser is a great feature to work around
> broken web sites, but using an outdated version of a browser can be a
> security problem: older versions have known exploits. So, it's better to
> use the most recent browser, and emulate older browsers if necessary for
> poorly-designed websites, but no the other way around.
>
Yes, for example MS are currently recommending that to download their
own MSDN subscriber downloads using their own transfer manager plugin
using their own Internet Explorer 11, you have to make it pretend it's
IE 9.
Nice testing there, chaps.
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Alan Bourke
alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm
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