[arachne] Re: Beware surfers: cyberspace is filling up - Times Online

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On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:12:37 -0400, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:

> On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 19:07 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote:
>> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!

>> On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:09:14 -0400, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:

>> > Hello folks:

>> > A very interesting story written by a group of cyber-alarmists:

>> >
>>
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article6169488.ece

>> > My proposed solution:

>> > They should simply install some filters on the internet for the
>> > purpose of keeping out all the dummies.

>> > Take care, and don't let the bustards grind you down.

>> > Sam Heywood

>> Do you perhaps mean this type of filter ?

>> This one _will_ most certainly keep out virtually ALL of the dummies.

>> It would only inconvenience a very few whom are _not_ dummies.

>> And those very few would have enough computer savvy
>> to know how to get in past the filter.

>> http://www.glennmcc.org/filter.php

>> Contains this simple little bit of code.......

>> //next line == no Windows !!!!
>> if(eregi('Windows',$user_agent))
>> {echo "<center><big><br>Windows user go away !!!!!!";Die();}
>> ______________________________________________________________


> Yep, that sure works.

> The folks in charge of the www consortium ought to recommend
> widespread deployment of this code in order to liberate all
> the bandwidth being usurped and occupied by the Window$ dummies.

> Your web site just told me to go away when I accessed it
> while I was running Windows XP.

> No problem when I accessed it by running Lynx in my NetBSD
> shell account.  Also no problem when I accessed it while
> running linux Ubuntu.

> I tried to view all the page source when I accessed the page
> with linux.  To my surprise, the lines where it tells Windows
> users to go away were nowhere to be found while I was looking
> at the page source.  Why is that?

> Sam Heywood

It does not show in the page you receive because it is strictly
in the PHP code which generates the HTML page.

When visiting with any Windows browser, all that gets sent is.....

<center><big><br>Windows user go away !!!!!!

When visiting with any non-windows browser, that text is not
sent but rather the exact same content as-if you had visited
http://www.glennmcc.org/
(which actually accesses.... http://www.glennmcc.org/index.php )

filter.php is an exact duplicate of index.php
but with that windows user agent code inserted.

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