Re: Non-traditional software accessing my website
| From: | Robert Cummings | 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.
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