Re: wine and security? [slightly long]

["Dinesh Shah (દિનેશ શાહ/दिनेश शाह)" <user=1541@nabble.blu.org>]

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On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 6:52 PM, Matthew Gillen <> wrote: 
> 
> Never tried to run ffox in wine, since anything it can do in windows it can 
> do in linux. 
> 
>> 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.