[plug] 'Linux' with Windows (a little OT)

[Mark Nold]

I cant help but ask why?

Anyway IE will send out request with some details about the browser 
HTTP_USER_AGENT

Using IE5.5 on win98 will send something like
HTTP_USER_AGENT Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98)

Now how you change that on your Windows box, i doubt you can.

If you are using a proxy, that could more than likely be configured to send 
whatever you want.

Hacking up something in Perl (to run on your Windows box) is pretty easy .. i 
remember doing something similiar to log exactly what Acrobat did when it was 
opening files.

Or you could get Mozilla (or whatever its called) modify the source and compile 
it under Windows and it can say whatever you want.

But at the end of the day using Linux would probably be easier and a saner 
solution.....

mn



Mark Nold
markn at enspace.com
Senior Consultant

Change is inevitable, except from vending machines.




On Friday, 4 May 2001 7:58, Flipper [SMTP:twoflippers at icqmail.com] wrote:
> G'day all
>
> I was wondering, I have a linux box and also a Windows comp both of which I
> can access the internet through the Windows machine (logic lacking I know,
> experimental phase) I would like to give the impression that I am using the
> linux machine when i am on the internet...
> Presumably I do this with headers in IE 5.5 but how exactly??
> I'm sort of adrift
>
> Is this even possible?
> and how easy \ difficlut is it to do?
> if possible how?
>
> Cheers!
> David
>
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> Perth, Australia
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