[Am-info] Budweiser: Use Microsoft software or bug off

[Roy Bixler]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 09:58:22AM -0800, Mitch Stone wrote:
> On Jan 21, 2004, at 9:31 AM, T. Guilbert wrote:
> >The site is:
> >
> >><http://veepers02.budweiser.com/service/RetrieveCard?id=D359D5D0 
> >>-4BF2-11D8-B31B-B3EE4054966E>
> Curiously, even when I set the user agent on Safari to MSIE for Mac or  
> Windows, the site returns this error message, but when I run the "real"  
> IE for Mac, it works. Most of the "IE-only" sites can be accessed by  
> simply changing the user agent, so I don't get what they've done here.

I didn't see any browser exclusion type of message when accessing that
page from Konqueror on Linux.  Perhaps that's one configuration they
didn't plan on excluding, so they let it through.  It certainly is
fishy because Safari is basically Konqueror ported to Mac OS X.  Has
anyone tried writing to the Web site maintainers for an explanation?

Another interesting thing is that

http://uptime.netcraft.co.uk/up/graph?site=veepers02.budweiser.com

shows that the site is running on a Linux server hosted by IBM.

R.