Re: Barring access to Netscape
At 12:32 AM 12/1/95 +0600, Ed Carp wrote:
If you want to bar access to your site from a Netscape browser, such can easily be accomplished. If memory serves, every browser, when connecting to a site, exchanges certain information about the client with the server. One can gain access easily to that information.
This would not be satisfactory in itself: Ideally one would like to bring up a page saying "Sorry, you cannot access that page because you are using a netscape browser: Click *here* for the sad tale of Netscape.
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At 12:32 AM 12/1/95 +0600, Ed Carp wrote:
If you want to bar access to your site from a Netscape browser, such can easily be accomplished. If memory serves, every browser, when connecting to a site, exchanges certain information about the client with the server. One can gain access easily to that information.
This would not be satisfactory in itself: Ideally one would like to bring up a page saying "Sorry, you cannot access that page because you are using a netscape browser: Click *here* for the sad tale of Netscape.
Just make all the URLs on the server point to a CGI script. The script would check the requesting browser's id and return the real data or the "sorry" message. This would allow the process to be done with *no* server changes. Since "Cypherpunks write code", one can easily imagine a hack to the Apache or NCSD or CERN servers that did the same thing without having the overhead of a CGI script for each access.
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