[TriLUG] I can't believe reputable companies still do this

[Jeremy Portzer]

On Fri, 2003-04-25 at 15:29, Mike wrote:
> That's a neat trick.  Now I can do bash processing on web sites.
> 
> I can read HTML up to a point, but there are things in there that confuse me.  
> Like that long, random string.  What is that?  And where do they detect my 
> browser type?
> 

The browser type is being determined on the server side, either in the
ASP code or some other part of the web server.  (On Apache you could do
it with BrowserMatch directive, for example.)  If you don't match one of
the allowed browsers, it generates an HTTP redirect that sends you do
the InvalidBrowser.htm page.

--Jeremy

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