On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 5:25 PM, Russell N. Nelson - rnnelson
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Remember Rule #1: You can't solve social problems using technical means. The 
> social problem is that people keep using IE6. The technical means are to 
> protect them by pandering to IE6 security lapses. The social solution is to 
> tell people "FFS, STOP USING IE^111".
>
> For all the reasons Brion gave below, I support the idea of checking to see 
> if the browser is IE6, and if it is, then give them a header that says "We 
> can no longer provide you with a secure browsing experience because you are 
> using Internet Explorer 6" followed by a dump of the raw wikitext with any 
> angle brackets replaced by &lt; and &gt;.
>

I support the proposal in spirit :)

But.....wouldn't work with our cache setup. Squid doesn't
filter on user agent.

-Chad

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