Re: Non-traditional software accessing my website

On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 15:06 -0500, Andrew Ballard wrote: > 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. > > ditto :D Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP