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Re: [PLUG] interesting experiment
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On Thursday December 13 2001 11:53, Tobias DiPasquale wrote:
> I just used Konqueror 2.2.2-1 to pull down three different versions of
> the page: one with no User-Agent identification, one as IE 5.5 on Win2k,
> and one as Opera on Windows. There is no difference in the HTML aside
> from the different ads I got with each iteration. diff rocks, fellas :)
> Anyway, what you are mostly likely seeing is a difference in JavaScript
> handling or some other internal feature in Konqueror that we may be
> unaware of. This page is littered with <script> tags everywhere, and I
> wouldn't be surprised if they were handled differently according to
> User-Agent status (otherwise, what would the point of that feature be??)
Some pages want MSIE (or Netscape). Thats a reason for the user-agent to
exist. Like, Siebert wants MSIE 5 or above. So Id have to set it for that.
But it still doesn't work (SSL probs that I hope get fixed in Konq).
It's the only useful page I can't use. And I so need to sell my RHAT shares
;-P
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