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Hell, even to use a Mac on SATERN at all, you have to use Safari and spoof the user-agent string.
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Presenting different pages to a search engine than to ostensibly human visitors is a common technique that can be implemented using a variety of methods, including robots. txt, javascript, htaccess, IP address/user-agent recognition, etc.
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Presenting different pages to a search engine than to ostensibly human visitors is a common technique that can be implemented using a variety of methods, including robots.txt, javascript, htaccess, IP address/user-agent recognition, etc.
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Server side decisions on supported capabilities of a client is as old as the hills through both user-agent header strings and supported content type negotiation.
The wonderful world of Apple RSS « Scripting News Annex 2006
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IIRC, you can adjust for screen layout at the server by extracting the screen resolution information from the user-agent portion of the HTTP request and then serving different code for different page sizes.
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Such is not the case from someone who wants to scramble their user-agent string and submit bogus test results from a Perl script or post links to your survey on the Something Awful forums or 4chan along with helpful suggestions as to how to feed it bad data.
Should we trust experiments on the Web? josh 2008
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The Debug Menu will then appear on the Menu bar in Safari, and it has an option to spoof the user-agent string.
Boing Boing: September 4, 2005 - September 10, 2005 Archives 2005
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When you navigate to the website, the website does not read the user-agent to present mobile users with the correct version of the site if one even exists.
Elevator Pitch Friday: BookGlutton, The Computer’s Kindle Leena Rao 2005
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• The "user-agent string" text that browsers supply so Web servers can deliver the appropriate version of a Web site--for touch user interfaces.
CNET News.com 2011
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• The "user-agent string" text that browsers supply so Web servers can deliver the appropriate version of a Web site--for touch user interfaces.
The Download Blog: Software tips, news, and opinions from Download.com editors Stephen Shankland 2011
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