[PLUG] MSN SideGuide

Brent Rieck bsr at spek.org
Wed Jan 23 15:50:14 UTC 2008


Paul Johnson wrote:
> 1) You don't need to, this particular problem only presents itself to
> Windows users, not Linux users.  Many people including myself have
> confirmed this.

I'm curious not for myself, since I've never actually been able to 
connect to a MetroFi node, but for people I know who are stuck on windows.

> 2) User Agent munging considered harmful.  If they want to know what
> you're using, why not tell them what you're using or nothing at all?

It seems that it's the user agent parsing that's harmful.. every time 
the user agent is munged it's to get around some stupid web site/service.

--Brent




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