On Nov 16, 2007 10:30 AM, Peter Ford <pete@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > I was all ready to jump on Point #6 to disagree until I read the > > next paragraph, updating that with the correct information. PHP can > > find out the OS of the system on which the browser is running. > > > > Strictly speaking, PHP can only find out what the browser tells it - that > includes the OS. I could quite easily hack the browser info string sent by (at > least one of) my browsers to pretend I was using some horrible Windows rubbish... > > I use the User-Agent Switcher add-on for Firefox for this. It's so easy I don't even really consider it a "hack" -- it's a "feature". :-) With it, I can not only change the UserAgent string sent in web page requests, but I can also change the values of the userAgent, appName, appVersion, platform, vendor and vendorSub properties of the built-in navigator object in JavaScript. Andrew -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
