Re: Non-traditional software accessing my website

2009/1/26 R B <rbpphp@gmail.com>: > 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. As Rob has so eloquently said, you can't. Might I suggest you address the problem you've created, that of viewing the copyright info, rather than trying to control what people do with your publicly accessible site, which is a battle you can't win. -Stuart -- http://stut.net/