[44394] in Cypherpunks
Re: Barring access to Netscape
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A. Rosenberg)
Fri Dec 1 14:33:01 1995
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 1995 14:26:19 -0500
To: ecarp@netcom.com
From: "Robert A. Rosenberg" <hal9001@panix.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
At 0:32 12/1/95, 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.
>
>I believe that Netscape uses "Mozilla" as their keyword when
>exchanging browser-specific information.
If you want to see one way of locking out Netscape users, check out this
URL which points at a Web Page that will not allow access by Netscape Users
(the guy is ticked off at them trying to establish their own standards) -
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/ratinox/angels/
