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List:       freebsd-advocacy
Subject:    Re: Slashdot-like site
From:       Will Andrews <andrews () TECHNOLOGIST ! COM>
Date:       1999-09-20 21:29:15
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On 20-Sep-99 Douglas Winslow wrote:
> If you aren't logged on with a user account on the site, it'll redirect
> you to whatever section it thinks is most appropriate based on your
> browser's user agent string.  If you are using Lynx, it'll revert to a
> (very quickly hacked in) text-only mode.

I assume you do this through PHP's ability to use apache's USER_AGENT env var.
A very nice way to do it.

> Someone mentioned that some Netscape versions may report as Linux 2.0.36
> due to the FreeBSD's Linux emulation layer, but I'm not sure exactly how I
> can get around that.  The biggest complaint is from people using the
> Junkbuster proxy, as it spoofs a Macintosh user agent string. :-)

Those people need to install the native version of Netscape. I run Netscape
4.61, and so my user agent string looks like this:

        Mozilla/4.61 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE i386; Nav)

..and I get redirected to the BSD page. ;)

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