Thanks Andy and Angus, I 'know' how it's happening, but you're both missing my point. Why the heck does Microsoft need to know what OS I'm on when I'm browsing their site & telling me I may be on the wrong page? I'm a network admin, I try to keep browsing from an actual server to a minimum, if I'm researching an issue then I'm going to be doing it from my workstation.
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Angus Scott-Fleming <angu...@geoapps.com>wrote: > On 9 Dec 2009 at 11:00, Sherry Abercrombie wrote: > > > So I'm clicking on a link for a Microsoft KB article sent to me by > > Sunbelt support pertaining to Windows 2000 & 2003 Server OS from my pc. > > The top of the screen has this rather interesting message on it: "This > > article applies to a different version of Windows than the one you are > > using. Content in this article may not be relevant to you. > > Visit the Windows XP Solution Center" > > > > Kinda scary I think...... > > Not at all. If you change your browser's UserAgent you can fool the web > server into thinking you're anything, including an iPhone or the GoogleBot > (this last one is very useful for reading news sites which require accounts > -- they almost all let the GoogleBot in). > > If you're curious about what your browser is divulging, go here: > > Whats My User Agent? > http://whatsmyuseragent.com/ > > Firefox has a nice add-on that makes changing your UA on the fly trivial. > > User Agent Switcher > http://chrispederick.com/work/user-agent-switcher/ > > My default UA is > Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102 > Firefox/3.5.5 > But I can also "be" a Mac: > Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-GB; rv:1.7.10) > Gecko/20050717 Firefox/1.0.7 > or even a Palm Pre: > Mozilla/5.0 (webOS/1.0; U; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.27.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) > Version/1.0 Safari/525.27.1 Pre/1.0 > > HTH! > > Angus > > > -- > Angus Scott-Fleming > GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona > 1-520-895-3270 > ~! > > > > > > > > -- Sherry Abercrombie "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
