On Fri, 26 Jan 1996, Marc wrote: > Mac IE gives the user a choice of User-Agent strings. You can choose to > identify yourself as Internet Explorer (by which they still mean > Mozilla/1.21 (compatible; MSIE 2.0B; Mac_PowerPC) > !), Netscape 1.2 ( > Mozilla/1.22(Macintosh; I; PowerPC) > ), Netscape 2.0 (this one was on by default....*sigh* > Mozilla/2.0b3(Macintosh; I; PowerPC) > ), or even a custom string that you enter! (I chose > I-am-not-netscape-i-am-internet-explorer/2.0B > .) Maybe we should thank Microsoft for pointing out how silly and utterly useless User-Agent is for content negotiation. Brian --=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-- brian@organic.com brian@hyperreal.com http://www.[hyperreal,organic].com/Received on Saturday, 27 January 1996 01:08:59 GMT
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