Re: Non-traditional software accessing my website

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On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Robert Cummings <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>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

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