> Both of these can get you locked out of some sites, so you
> will have to balance this against the privacy improvement.
> (The main reason for checking User Agent tends to be to
> prevent crawling of the site, or at least crawling by
> badly behaved crawlers.)
>
>
Are there many sites which deny access if there is no X-Forwarded-For
header?
How do they tell the user agent header is fake? I could deliver the AIX
Netscape useragent string for all requests.
glenn
Received on Tue Aug 31 1999 - 14:12:37 MDT
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