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

[Erick Andrews]

On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 18:55:44 +0000, Roy Bixler wrote:

>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.

That's interesting because when I checked veepers02.budweiser.com
with Netcraft immediately after I got an error e-mail, Netcraft couldn't
find the site.  I cut and pasted, so I doubt there was any typo.  Strange.

Erick