Re: Doctype and replace()

by Charles A Upsdell <cupsdell(at)upsdell.com>

Date:	Sat, 13 Mar 2004 15:37:19 -0500
To:	hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
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At 02:42 PM 2004-03-13, you wrote:
>FYI: Be aware that Opera gives the option to send header info to identify 
>it as either MSIE, Mozilla or Opera.

But even when Opera is configured to spoof another browser, its userAgent 
string always contain the substring 'Opera', so a competent programmer can 
always identify Opera reliably.  Unfortunately, too many log analysis 
programs are written by incompetent programmers.

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