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Don't Ban Opera Users
Calum:
Wow. Microsoft rulez (sic) eh? well, that's really relevant.
kjg:
quote:Originally posted by bankyfan:
Ok, tried that, and am still getting banned. The problem must lie elsewhere. Thanks for trying though, appretiated!
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In another forum, I was noted as "logged in" but couldn't post until I enabled referrer logging. Don't know if it's the same problem for you, but it might be. You might want to try this: If you're on Opera 6, it's in the "quick preferences" menu found on the File menu, otherwise I think you can find it in the main "preferences" menu under "privacy." I prefer to turn referrer logging off when I'm not in places that require it (and I only turn it on when I really *want* to be at a place that requires referrer logging to work properly).
Worth a shot, anyway.
dbl221:
When you create a CGI(perl) script to display a visitors browser type you parse the Apache log files looking for certian strings...like "IE".
The problem with this is that most browsers do not correctly identify themselves.....most show up in the Apache logs as some version of Mozilla.
Then you have to figure out what the log entries actually mean....the next problem is that many browsers let the user enter their own description string...like in Konqueror.
Moral of the story is ...check those Apache logs and have lots of browsers handy to test the cgi script with.
dbl221****Comp-Sys walkin wounded
MxCl:
When you set Opera to say it's MSIE it still has Opera 6.0 stuck on the end of the browser string that gets passed to those thingies (whatever they ares).
So Opera probably doesn't contribute to all MSIE counts, however the person who coded the section that analyses the browser string has to be clued up about this.
Kage:
Seems silly to me to ban IE users, anyways. At work here I *HAVE* to use IE, and if you say "change the policy" I will laugh.
It's difficult to change the mind of the US government.
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