On Fri, 1 Dec 1995, Ed Carp wrote:
I believe that Netscape uses "Mozilla" as their keyword when exchanging browser-specific information.
The field is User-Agent. However, blocking access to users of Navigator isn't a particularly useful thing to do. If you must do something, why not modify your GET handler to add a header to the start of all html pages informing people of the problem, and suggesting alternatives. Someone else [I can't remember, but I'll call them Alice] claimed that the security problems showing up were part of a deliberate conspiracy. To anyone who knows anything about the history of these things knows how absurd this is. The principals at Netscape are a nice bunch of really guys, but were not really up to speed on issues like security and networking- for example, the first incarnation of SSL had an RC4 stream running with no checksumming whatsoever. The security problems that resulted are due to the learning curve. Simon