Re: eb-lite :: home comments from MSIE 5.5

Toby A Inkster <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.everybuddy.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 08:54:30AM +0100, Meredydd wrote:
| On Wednesday 04 June 2003 23:13, Toby A Inkster wrote:
| > Anyway, yes it could be hidden, but I try to avoid browser sniffing when
| > possible.
| Good idea, especially as many people have Opera set to identify as IE to get 
| into sites which only admit Netscape or IE (*ahem* what could that be, I 
| wonder?)

Except, Opera's User-Agent strings always contain the substring "Opera", 
even when it is spoofing another browser. In fact, they always match the 
regular expression:

$OPERA.$MAJORVERSION\.$MINORVERSION

eg, from my Apache logs:

"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) Opera 7.11 [en]"
"Mozilla/4.78 (Windows NT 5.1; U) Opera 7.11  [en]"
"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; U) Opera 7.11  [en]"
"Opera/7.11 (Windows NT 5.1; U)  [en]"

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