Re: Falsifying [BROWSERNAME]

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1998


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 18722
interpreted = N
texte = At 3:01 PM -0800 7/7/98, Rob Marquardt is rumored to have typed: > On 7/7/1998 2:26 pm, Michael Winston so noted... > > Does it *ever* properly assign the cart number for the Lycos spider? I > don't know if it'd affect the matching in this case, but the [url] tags > are not necessary (especially for something like [url]Lycos[/url]). > Browserwatch also lists a couple Microsoft browsers that contain > LycosIT1 and LycosUK1, so you may want to change the comparison to: > > [SHOWIF [BROWSERNAME]^Lycos_][MATH SHOW=F]NEWCART=1[/MATH][/SHOWIF] > > for safety's sake. > > If you want to do it for your internal testing, you can open a copy of > Navigator with ResEdit and change the third string of Str# resource 210 > from Mozilla to Lycos_Spider_(T-Rex)Thanks. This is all amazingly helpful. I never would have known about the Microsoft Lycos browsers.It also struck me that I should probably be looking for USER-AGENT (in the MIME headers) and not the browser name.MichaelMichael Winston *By e-mail!: michaelw@dhorse.com Internet Coordinator *By web!: http://www.dhorse.com/ Dark Horse Comics, Inc. *By fax!: 503/654/9440 Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: Falsifying [BROWSERNAME] (Rob Marquardt 1998)
  2. Re: Falsifying [BROWSERNAME] (Michael Winston 1998)
  3. Re: Falsifying [BROWSERNAME] (Rob Marquardt 1998)
  4. Falsifying [BROWSERNAME] (Michael Winston 1998)
At 3:01 PM -0800 7/7/98, Rob Marquardt is rumored to have typed: > On 7/7/1998 2:26 pm, Michael Winston so noted... > > Does it *ever* properly assign the cart number for the Lycos spider? I > don't know if it'd affect the matching in this case, but the [url] tags > are not necessary (especially for something like [url]Lycos[/url]). > Browserwatch also lists a couple Microsoft browsers that contain > LycosIT1 and LycosUK1, so you may want to change the comparison to: > > [SHOWIF [browsername]^Lycos_][MATH SHOW=F]NEWCART=1[/MATH][/SHOWIF] > > for safety's sake. > > If you want to do it for your internal testing, you can open a copy of > Navigator with ResEdit and change the third string of Str# resource 210 > from Mozilla to Lycos_Spider_(T-Rex)Thanks. This is all amazingly helpful. I never would have known about the Microsoft Lycos browsers.It also struck me that I should probably be looking for USER-AGENT (in the MIME headers) and not the browser name.MichaelMichael Winston *By e-mail!: michaelw@dhorse.com Internet Coordinator *By web!: http://www.dhorse.com/ Dark Horse Comics, Inc. *By fax!: 503/654/9440 Michael Winston

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