Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 17:29:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Will Andrews <andrews@TECHNOLOGIST.COM> To: Douglas Winslow <douglas@min.net> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Slashdot-like site Message-ID: <XFMail.990920172915.andrews@TECHNOLOGIST.COM> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.4.10.9909201233051.4590-100000@min.net>
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On 20-Sep-99 Douglas Winslow wrote:
> If you aren't logged on with a user account on the site, it'll redirect
> you to whatever section it thinks is most appropriate based on your
> browser's user agent string. If you are using Lynx, it'll revert to a
> (very quickly hacked in) text-only mode.
I assume you do this through PHP's ability to use apache's USER_AGENT env var.
A very nice way to do it.
> Someone mentioned that some Netscape versions may report as Linux 2.0.36
> due to the FreeBSD's Linux emulation layer, but I'm not sure exactly how I
> can get around that. The biggest complaint is from people using the
> Junkbuster proxy, as it spoofs a Macintosh user agent string. :-)
Those people need to install the native version of Netscape. I run Netscape
4.61, and so my user agent string looks like this:
Mozilla/4.61 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE i386; Nav)
..and I get redirected to the BSD page. ;)
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