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Re: wine and security? [slightly long]



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Dinesh Shah wrote: 
>>> I ask because some web sites refuse to accept a connection from a 
>>> non-Windows source, and wine has the ability to fool. 
>> The way they identify the source is through the user-agent string, and there 
>> are firefox extensions to change your user-agent string to pretend like it's 
>> IE on WinXP, FFox on WinXp, or whatever.  Most non-ie browsers have some way 
>> that you can fake the user-agent string to get around stupidity in 
>> web-design. 
> 
> Not a good idea. That gives the web masters and developers excuse not 
> to create cross browser applications/web sites. :-( 
> 
> I would rather complain loudly. 
> 


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