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Did we do this one already? Who cares, let's go: I just visited powergen.co.uk. I got this message: ---- We have detected that you are running a browser not supported by this website. We currently support Microsoft Internet Explorer (Version 5.0 or above) and Netscape Navigator (Version 7.02 or above). Whilst not officially supported the site can also be used with Opera (Version 7.20 or above) and Konqueror (Version 3.1.1 or above). Your Current Browser: Netscape Your Current Version: 1.89 It is recommended that you upgrade your browser to one of the below. ---- Uh... Netscape 1.89? Let's have a look at that version string. Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1 StumbleUpon/1.89 Oh look. It's taken the beginning and the end of the string - the end happening to be the version number of StumbleUpon (that SU appended without asking me, and I hate it for doing so, as an aside). What fucking shitwit wrote this browser detection script? Having a website that does that at all should be a hanging offense, even *if* it works, which half of the time it doesn't. -- Earle Martin hex on irc.perl.org http://purl.oclc.org/net/earlemartin/
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