On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 05:16:33AM +0000, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 10:21:45PM +0000, Clive Menzies ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I'm intrigued..... why would you want to do this? I understand Opera > > does it because MS had found a way to lock them out of certain sites. > > Is this also a problem for Mozilla? > > http://twiki.iwethey.org/Main/UserAgentString > > The user-agent string has been the source of many of the Web's worst > ills. It's strongly encouraged that it be done away with in a way > that encourages better practices from site authors. > > .... [...]
I've found an example of a problem apparently caused by the UserAgentString check. I recently switched to Mozilla-firebird, and found that after the switch, amazon.com wouldn't recognise my password (kept on the local machine by mozilla). When I changed the UserAgentString to plain Mozilla using the User Agent Switcher, everything worked. I've written to amazon suggesting they change their ways; we'll see what happens. -- Martin Hillyer | -o) Powered by Debian GNU/Linux (sarge w/kernel 2.4.22) | /\ Communications by mutt-1.5.4i | _\_v -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
