--On Thursday, February 28, 2002 02:06:02 PM +0900 Oskar Bartenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What would be a good motivation to do so? > Server side benefit? Spider side benefit?
It is catering to busted sites. Some sites have customized HTML for different browsers. Sometimes, those sites don't work at all for unknown browsers. They may redirect all requests to an "upgrade your browser" page, or they may just break, returning a 500. Often, that means the site won't work for Lynx or for other handicapped-access tools. Then we call the site "illegal" instead of "broken". One way to work around these broken or illegal sites is to send a user agent that they will understand. To test handicapped accessibility with various user-agent strings, try the advanced options on Bobby (http://www.cast.org/bobby/). wunder -- Walter Underwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Staff Engineer, Inktomi http://www.inktomi.com/ -- This message was sent by the Internet robots and spiders discussion list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). For list server commands, send "help" in the body of a message to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]".
