the string opera send when imitating ie looks somthing like this:
Mozilla/4.0
(compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows XP) Opera 6.02 [en]
so the browser is
identifiable
my workaround is to search for the "opera" string, but that could be done
better...
[DODGER - Thu May 16 18:34:09 2002]:
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2002]:
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> > correctly identifies opera 6.01 for all browsers oper is faking
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except
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>
> *blinks*
> Um, you know,
to be totally honest, I don't know what to say about
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> one. Do you have any
suggestions as to how to identify a UserAgent
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Show quoted text> If you can post the UserAgent string in question, I can take a look
> and
> see if I
can do this. The thing is, if it's really identical to an
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> 5 UserAgent string,
there's nothing that can be done. The host of
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already makes it extremely
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*trying* to
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>
of a happy surprise to me!
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