Ebuyer.com runs on a Commodore 64!

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Alexander Schreiber wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 05:53:08AM -0700, David Greelish wrote:
>> Has anyone else read this short tech news piece? Wow, how do they do that?
>>
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/07/ebuyer_runs_site_on_commodore64/
> 
> Thats easy, the just set up their Apache to show a "slightly modified"
> version string, thats all.
> 
> A few years ago I had my local squid cache set up so it would replace
> the UserAgent string in HTTP requests proxied through it with something
> like 'TerminalWeb 1.5; Multics; 36 bits' - it was very interesting to
> see which poorly created web sites this broke (because they relied on
> the UserAgent string to show you browser specific content).

I did something similar to make my Mozilla Seamonkey appear to be 
Internet Explorer.  It's amazing how many lazy web developers create web 
pages that reject non-IE browsers, but when tested, their sites work 
fine with Mozilla.

Peace...  Sridhar