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Re: Need advice on reliable way to identify IE as thebrowser

Oh that *is* sneaky! You have my mischievous wheels a whirring Walden :-)

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Walden H. Leverich <
WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

But Aaron messed with my brain by suggesting that a Firefox plugin
could change the header settings. Wow, what a dirty trick on Web
developers!

It's an even better trick on sites that allow search engine crawlers in,
but require the average joe to signup. Just change your useragent to be
Googlebot and see what happens... um, not that I'd ever do such a thing.
:)

--
Walden H Leverich III


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