Netscape, Mosaic, and other goodies.
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.
Great idea! I'm sure there is a cypherpunk on this list willing to write a patch to NCSA HTTPd to get the job done, in a configurable manor of course so that a template.html would be 'inserted' at the top of every document sent out to the specified browser. Any takers?
No need. Simply add
<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="1;URL=netscape-warning.html">
to the start of your page. Netscape browsers will be redirected.
Are you sure Netscape browsers are the only ones that currently implement this tag? Other browsers will be implementing it soon enough I'm sure. I think the only fool-proof way of doing it is at the webserver. Anyway, isn't 5 million bux a little too much for the government to give Netscape for the security improvements? I would think that for less than a million a group of programmers could be rounded up to create a stable multi-platform web navigator with VRML, MPEG, Audio, Postscript, and a zillion other features built in. :) It's funny how one day we are raving about how great Netscape is, and the next day we hate them. If we aren't pleased with a particular piece of software, instead of argueing about it we should just go and make one that we are pleased with. Using the many libraries available such as MPEG, GIF, JPEG for example and releasing it under the GNU agreement is the way to go. Or perhaps we should just back the original browser, NCSA Mosaic. With some improvements it could once again be the best browser on the net. I suppose I'm not clear about the implications of these eskrow keys... just because the government is supporting it, and Netscape will be implementing it doesn't mean that we have to use it. Is it against the law to encrypt data (using your own method) and send it over the Internet? I don't think so. ...
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It's funny how one day we are raving about how great Netscape is, and the next day we hate them. If we aren't pleased with a particular piece of software, instead of argueing about it we should just go and make one that we are pleased with. Using the many libraries available such as MPEG, GIF, JPEG for example and releasing it under the GNU agreement is the way to go. Or perhaps we should just back the original browser, NCSA Mosaic. With some improvements it could once again be the best browser on the net.
Isn't it strange that the same people on this list who have been giving abuse to those of us who have been warning you about Netscape - are now coming to see that we were right all along? My point is NOT what you may think it is (i.e., that we were right and you were wrong). My point is that people on this list are a little bit too quick to jump to conclusions. Some of you are now marching off in opposition to Netscape based on a rumor about what someone from Netscape said and a report of a grant by the NSA. This sort of knee jerk reaction is often inappropriate. As to the idea of going with NCSA's mosaic, I'm all for it. In fact, that's the browser I've been using all along - mostly because it comes in source form so I can modify it for my less-popular operating environment, because there's no fee for its use, and because it's not a hyped up commercial venture with a stock having a price to earnings ratio of 7,000. -> See: Info-Sec Heaven at URL http://all.net/ Management Analytics - 216-686-0090 - PO Box 1480, Hudson, OH 44236
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