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Mozilla Identification

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Aaron Ni:
Ahh I see, I must have misread some other posts because I was under the impression that Mozilla could change identification.. Heh.

Thanks anyway.

preacher:
I was doing a little experimentation with Opera and my webserver to see if it truly was able to identify itself as IE, and here are the results.

**.**.*.*** - - [27/Jun/2002:02:53:06 -0400] "GET /style.css HTTP/1.1" 404 317 "http://www.badconnections.net/" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Linux 2.4.18-6mdk i686) Opera 6.0  [en]"

So yes, it does indeed attempt to hide itself as MSIE 5, but later on still declares that it is Opera running on linux. So anyone with any education at all wont be fooled.

Calum:
yes, it does do that, somebody did point that out (oh last year i think) but of course most people looking at those stats and counting them up are not people at all, they are machines and will discard any and all "irrelevant" information, thus logging that particular hit as internet explorer or whatever. (this is another reason why gooseberry clock's hit counter is a pile of pish)

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