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Date:	Mon, 13 Feb 2006 22:50:12 PST8
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: site check

In <200602131952281.SM02772@MAIN>, on 02/13/06
at 07:55 PM, "Mark Abramowitz" said:

>Yes, I got that. All I was saying was that if a plug-in will not work
>except with IE, it's not so dumb to avoid loading the plug-in if the
>accessing browser is not IE.

The stupid programmer trick was to choose a Window's specific plugin when
there are any number of media streaming formats available that don't have
this limitation.

>I'm not sure that I understand. From what I understand, a spoof will
>tell a site that asks that the accessing browser that it is a different
>browser than it really is. Are you saying that if the request is a Java
>Script request, the spoof doesn't work? I'm not sure what you mean by
>overiding http headers.

When you request a page from a server using the http protocols, the
request includes a number of headers, called, not unreasonably, http
headers. Among other things, these headers identify your browswer and the
response formats your browser is willing to accept. The UserAgent
extension overrides the content of this header. I don't know if the
browser id reported to JavaScript code can be overridden by this
extension.

Steven

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