Re: Non-traditional software accessing my website

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Robert Cummings <robert@interjinn.com>wrote: > 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. > I was just answering this with a long response, but you beat me with that "simplicity" ;) > Cheers, > Rob. Thiago Henrique Pojda http://nerdnaweb.blogspot DOT com