[44810] in Cypherpunks
Re: Barring access to Netscape
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Olsen)
Wed Dec 6 13:48:00 1995
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 1995 10:41:22 -0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Alan Olsen <alano@teleport.com>
At 03:28 PM 12/1/95 -0500, you wrote:
>You can get your server to simply put that at the top of every page
>served to a Netscape client, followed by a horizontal line and the
>normal web page. It should be easy to put together the hacks to do
>that and get them out to lots of people. Watch how fast people would
>switch from Netscape, especially were it widely deployed. You would
>then watch a fast fall in Netscape stock, which would likely piss Jim
>Clark off far more than anything else one could do.
This type of page hack is pretty easy. Take a look at _HTML & CGI
Unleashed_ from Netsams press. Page 410 has a script that can be easily
modified to do something similar. (Great book, but lacks some of the more
advanced server redirect tricks I have seen elsewhere.) The example is for
displaying an optional display for browsers that cannot deal with image
maps. It can be altered to do the same to any browser.
>We need HTML 3.0 capable browsers for all platforms, though.
They (the W3O) need to agree what HTML 3.0 consists of before that will
happen soon...
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