Microsoft flooding sites with fake traffic
    Mark Komarinski 
    mkomarinski at wayga.org
       
    Thu Feb 21 09:34:31 EST 2008
    
    
  
On 02/21/2008 09:30 AM, Ben Scott wrote:
>   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.
>   
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