From: "Robert A. Rosenberg" <hal9001@panix.com>
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 1995 03:56:01 +0800
To: ecarp@netcom.com
Subject: Re: Barring access to Netscape
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At 0:32 12/1/95, Ed Carp wrote:

>If you want to bar access to your site from a Netscape browser, such
>can easily be accomplished.  If memory serves, every browser, when
>connecting to a site, exchanges certain information about the client
>with the server.  One can gain access easily to that information.
>
>I believe that Netscape uses "Mozilla" as their keyword when
>exchanging browser-specific information.

If you want to see one way of locking out Netscape users, check out this
URL which points at a Web Page that will not allow access by Netscape Users
(the guy is ticked off at them trying to establish their own standards) -


http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/ratinox/angels/