Attacking the browser user agent is probably the best way to get started with this as that's how the browser identifies itself (and reports OS type).
In Mozilla you could change this in the source to look like IE read about the current Mozilla user agent here
http://www.mozilla.org/build/revised-user-agent-strings.html
First you would build a page to grab the user agent and point a IE 5.5 on Win 2k to it. then you could modify the Moz source to be the same.
IE 5.5 on a Win 2K box would report something like this
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)
Konqueror's user agent can be set to a variety of options in it's settings.
Other ways of detecting OS type (but not browser) would include tricks such as remote os fingerprinting (see the nmap man page about that) but web sites are unlikely to do this as much as say ISP's
I have got past a lot of Linux hostile sites by using Konq and setting the user agent to something MS in the settings.
Hope that helps
Wayne
On Tuesday 22 October 2002 09:10, Craig wrote:
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 10:04:52AM +0100, tom potts wrote:
Thanks again for the help with NTL broadband - now working with a RH6.1/120MP5/32Mram - getting a lot of 'who is' from NTL but thats fun!
Erm....... Red hat 6.1??? Upgrade upgrade upgrade to be sure you won't get hacked
On another similar note: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/27698.html They are presumably reading the HTTP headers to get the operating system/browser info so does anyone know of an easy way of spoofing them - I know at work our proxy effectively does it so is there anything out there that can con the world that I'm running IE5.5 on a W2K box?
This I would be interested to find out....