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On Tue, 18 Apr 2000 22:07:36 +0200, Outsider
<nonvalid_email AT yahoo DOT com> wrote:

>Alexei A. Frounze wrote:
>> 
>> Outsider wrote:
>> > Here is a search page for Microsoft product support:
>> > http://search.support.microsoft.com/kb/c.asp
>> >
>> > Windows 3.x users are EXCLUDED access to this page!
>> > Windows 4.x users are ALLOWED access to this page!
>> >
>> > When I try to access the page using Windows 3.11, I get fowarded
>> > to this page instead:
>> > http://search.support.microsoft.com/support/misc/unsupported.asp
>> >
>> > Can this be legal to deny this page (support) to Windows 3.x users
>> > while providing it for Windows 4.x (a.k.a. 95/98) users?
>> 
>> Simply teach your browser to lie about OS version. :)
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___________________)  it's growing...

>I have a little program written by Paul Chitescu that does that,
>but I think it only works for Netscape which is ok for me since
>that is what I use.

Everyone else can run a caching proxy.  Many proxies have the
capability to "lie" about the HTTP user agent.

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