[44347] in Cypherpunks
Re: Barring access to Netscape
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Fri Dec 1 03:05:56 1995
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 1995 00:00:08 -0800
To: ecarp@netcom.com, cypherpunks@toad.com
From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
At 12:32 AM 12/1/95 +0600, Ed Carp wrote:
>If you want to bar access to your site from a Netscape browser, such
>can easily be accomplished. If memory serves, every browser, when
>connecting to a site, exchanges certain information about the client
>with the server. One can gain access easily to that information.
This would not be satisfactory in itself: Ideally one would like to bring
up a page saying "Sorry, you cannot access that page because you
are using a netscape browser: Click *here* for the sad tale of
Netscape.
>
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