Re: Barring access to Netscape

Shouldn't be too hard to hack this into Apache.
Should my commercial release of Apache/SSL include this? ;-) (I could make it into a configuration option, so that if the User-Agent is Mozilla, it passes Back a Refresh: header with the response....)
Well, I think configurable redirects based on User-Agent would be a good thing. However, if you don't control the server being used you can still use client pull to redirect on a page-by-page basis. I've been made aware of at least one non-Netscape browser that does client pulls, so checking the User-Agent would be desirable, but (AFAIK) that isn't possible without modifying the server, using cgi, or something along those lines. I've got the perl script to automatically add (and remove) the meta-http lines to individual pages more or less done, but I won't release it just yet (if at all). Jeff Weinstein's promise to make Netscape's GAK policy publically available is an important step in the right direction. However, whatever their policy statement ends up saying, it should be obvious that their level of commitment to opposing GAK is minimal at best. | (Douglas) Hofstadter's Law: Frank Stuart | It always takes longer than you expect, even fstuart@vetmed.auburn.edu | when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
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