Why are you trying to avoid the problem instead of SOLVING. And then again: you are discriminating windows users, and forcing ppl to use a custom PC for just webmail? Well good luck with the rest of your life then... You are clearly providing a COMPLETE wrong and extremely un-user friendly solution. -----Original Message----- From: R. Eimann [mailto:regist_apache@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 04 July 2008 23:40 To: MegaBrutal Cc: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Is it possible to filter requests from certain browsers/OSes? This is not for many users anyway (nothing commercial), it's mainly for my parents in law. The security of my boxes weighs a bit more than ethics in this case. Apart from that, I provided a faily up-to-date Linux box to them, but I have doubts that they actually use it (I dont care whether they use it for general browsing, but I want to force them using it when they access their SquirrelMail accounts on my box, for the sake of security of my box)... On Saturday 05 July 2008, MegaBrutal wrote: > Ban Windows users just because they are Windows users is quite > unethical. You are discriminating them. > But once, I've done something similar to Opera users, but I didn't > banned them, just showed a warning that they are actually using a very > crappy browser, use Firefox or IE instead. :D -- R. Eimann --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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