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

[Mitch Stone]

I may misunderstand how this works, but I thought the web server relied 
on the browser to report its identity. This is selectable with Safari 
(if the debug menu is turned on), so I can make it masquerade as any 
one of several browsers and platforms. As I say, setting Safari to 
report itself as IE on Windows nearly always blows right past the 
"browser not supported" messages, but not in this case.

Safari is based on the Konqueror engine, but I don't think it's 
entirely accurate to call it a Linux port.

On Jan 22, 2004, at 10:55 AM, 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?	
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