Re: [SLUG] OS disguise in browser

[Alan L Tyree <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 14:21, Brett Fenton wrote:
> I don't know about Mozilla, but this is a config setting in Opera.

Thanks Brett - I don't see it anywhere in Mozilla or Galeon.

> 
> Alan L Tyree wrote:
> 
> > Evidently Mozilla sends out information which permits the server to
> > identify Linux as the operating system. Is it possible to fool the
> > server into thinking that some other :-) operating system is being used?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Alan
> 
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