[44423] in Cypherpunks
Re: Barring access to Netscape
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Brickner)
Fri Dec 1 18:32:15 1995
To: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
Cc: ecarp@netcom.com, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: (Your message of Thu, 30 Nov 1995 00:00:08 PST.)
<199512010802.AAA09494@blob.best.net>
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 1995 17:00:30 -0600
From: Scott Brickner <sjb@universe.digex.net>
"James A. Donald" writes:
>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.
Just make all the URLs on the server point to a CGI script. The script
would check the requesting browser's id and return the real data or the
"sorry" message. This would allow the process to be done with *no*
server changes.
Since "Cypherpunks write code", one can easily imagine a hack to the
Apache or NCSD or CERN servers that did the same thing without having
the overhead of a CGI script for each access.
