"jeremiah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
I'm trying to force the user agent in a python login script...
Might I ask why?
It should never be necessary and is extremely user hostile.
Especially given that many modern browsers are capable
of emulating the troublesome ones - ie IE! And future versions
might change the rules and you then have a huge maintenance
overhead of keeping your list of browsers updated.
If at all possible it's better to put the effort into making your
code browser neutral. Which mainly meams avoiding unusual
HTML constructs, using ECMAscript rather than any vendor
specific variant of JavaScript and not trying to control layout
and style too closely (that's what PDF is for!)
question is what are the possible user agents I can specify
Thats a changing question because the number of browsers
and what they report to the server is changing constantly.
Its usually more common to simply specify a small subset
of the most common ones and anyone with the audacity to
prefer an alternative hgets a more or less rude message
telling them to pick another browser....
print the user agent at the end of the script so I know that it was
accurately saved. Here is the first bit of my code.
Its stored in an environment variable. How you access that
will depend on your server/framework but as a last resort
os.getenv() should work.
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