Re: Non-traditional software accessing my website

From: Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:13:01 +0000
Subject: Re: Non-traditional software accessing my website
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On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 13:04 -0600, R B wrote: > Hello, > > Is there a way to be sure that a website is going to be accessed only by > traditional browsers and not from another > software that send to the server the same headers of any of the traditional > browsers? > For example, supose that i only want to give access to my site users from > firefox, ie, chrome and safari, because > i know that the users can´t download the copyright information of the > website to the temporary files with anyone > of this browsers. > > How can i be sure that someone that develop a mini-browser or a software > can´t access my site sending the same > header information of traditional browsers? > > In this case, the validation of HTTP_USER_AGENT isn´t a solution. You can't... get over it. Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP

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