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[LUG] wrong user agent



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Some things really annoy me...

the following message was sent to BBC Weather website feedback 

"In your weather help page, you suggest that if I can't view the animated 
weather maps it must be a problem with java.  I found however that while 
I have a fully functioning java installation I still could not see the 
animations - until I told my browser to lie to your website and describe 
itself as Internet Explorer 6 then,  hey presto - instant animation!  

Normally my browser would describe itself as "Konqueror/3.1" somewhere in 
the user-agent string.  While older versions of this browser might not 
have been very happy with your weather animations, this one is more than 
happy with them - please update your site policies accordingly.

Thanks, Tony"

If you don't tell them they probably won't bother to find out for 
themselves

Tony

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