Steve Fosdick fozzy@pelvoux.demon.co.uk writes:
The other possibility, of course, is that someone has a browser that lets the user configure the agent header (doesn't opera let you do that?), or a proxy server that can be made to falsify it.
It's wwwoffle falsifying the user-agent to flag up sites which are trying to check the user-agent header and return different versions of a site to me. They almost all look at "BBC Micro" and go "MUH?".
It's the same reason my default browser background is lime green: to spot bad web site coding.
The other interesting thing is that this is a Linux related web site and most of the browsers appear to be MS IE on Windows!
Yes, I noticed that. I guess we need more content which is aimed at a) illustrating the benefits of Linux for people running buggy non-free systems; and b) getting Linux ppp working easily.
Any volunteers? Articles should first be emailed to alug-announce at stu.uea.ac.uk to test them out and get the rough edges knocked off.