Re: [NEWBIE GUIDE] For the benefit of new members
| From: | Peter Ford | Date: | Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:30:05 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [NEWBIE GUIDE] For the benefit of new members | ||
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> I was all ready to jump on Point #6 to disagree until I read the
> next paragraph, updating that with the correct information. PHP can
> find out the OS of the system on which the browser is running.
>
Strictly speaking, PHP can only find out what the browser tells it - that
includes the OS. I could quite easily hack the browser info string sent by (at
least one of) my browsers to pretend I was using some horrible Windows rubbish...