Re: Non-traditional software accessing my website

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Thiago H. Pojda <thiago.pojda@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > ditto