[Tutor] user agent

[Kent Johnson]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 7:55 PM, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com> wrote:
> "jeremiah" <jeremiah.jester at panasonic.aero> 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.

Alan, I think you might have this backwards. I think jeremiah wants to
specify the user agent on the client side of the connection.

Kent