Re: Need advice on reliable way to identify IE asthebrowser

["Brandon Peterson" <brandon.peterson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Some of them just use javascript and don't do anything special on the
server side.

Thanks,
Brandon


-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Walden H. Leverich
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 11:32 AM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Need advice on reliable way to identify IE
asthebrowser

> But Aaron messed with my brain by suggesting that a Firefox plugin 
> could change the header settings.  Wow, what a dirty trick on Web
developers!

It's an even better trick on sites that allow search engine crawlers in,
but require the average joe to signup. Just change your useragent to be
Googlebot and see what happens... um, not that I'd ever do such a thing.
:)

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