19 Jul
2007
19 Jul
'07
11:26 a.m.
On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 05:53:08AM -0700, David Greelish wrote:
Has anyone else read this short tech news piece? Wow,
how do they do that?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/07/ebuyer_runs_site_on_commodore64/
Thats easy, the just set up their Apache to show a "slightly modified"
version string, thats all.
A few years ago I had my local squid cache set up so it would replace
the UserAgent string in HTTP requests proxied through it with something
like 'TerminalWeb 1.5; Multics; 36 bits' - it was very interesting to
see which poorly created web sites this broke (because they relied on
the UserAgent string to show you browser specific content).
Regards,
Alex.
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