[9683] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Microsoft IE -- it just gets better and better (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Behlendorf)
Sat Jan 27 01:13:57 1996
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 22:11:57 -0800 (PST)
From: Brian Behlendorf <brian@organic.com>
To: www-talk@w3.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.91.960126215006.7786x-100000@fully.organic.com>
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
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
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