From owner-freebsd-advocacy Mon Sep 20 14:29:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from saturn.psn.net (saturn.psn.net [207.211.58.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD4D614EF7 for ; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 14:29:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from will@blackdawn.com) Received: from shadow.blackdawn.com (5042-243.008.popsite.net [209.224.140.243]) by saturn.psn.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA20184; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 14:36:36 -0700 (MST) Received: (from will@localhost) by shadow.blackdawn.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA11611; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 17:29:15 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from will) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 17:29:15 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: Will Andrews From: Will Andrews To: Douglas Winslow Subject: Re: Slashdot-like site Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. ;) -- Will Andrews GCS/E/S @d- s+:+>+:- a--->+++ C++ UB++++ P+ L- E--- W+++ !N !o ?K w--- ?O M+ V-- PS+ PE++ Y+ PGP+>+++ t++ 5 X++ R+ tv+ b++>++++ DI+++ D+ G++>+++ e->++++ h! r-->+++ y? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message