Microsoft flooding sites with fake traffic

[Ben Scott]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 9:15 AM, Coleman Kane <cokane at cokane.org> wrote:
>  It is extremely amusing to me that MSIE still identifies as "Mozilla/4.0"...

  All user agents are "Mozilla", thanks to brain-damage perpetrated
back in the mid-1990's by dumb web developers who assumed that
Netscape was the web and used "User-Agent" to block all other
browsers, even compatible ones.  Now, of course, we have the same
problem in the other direction; one sometimes has to tell
Firefox/Opera/etc. to claim to be MSIE.  I hate dumb web developers.

-- Ben