Jonathan Benson wrote:
> You could go via a HTTP-anonymyzer thingie. Ie proxy and have it report itself
> as being Win 95.
>
> Squid or Junkbuster come to mind.
>
> Jonathan Masters wrote:
>
> > The worst of it is - the site ***********filters*********** by OS type. This
> > means that you can't access it if you're running Linux. Actually, that brings
> > up a question: I have a barclays online banking account, but barclays also
> > filter by OS type (at least what they get from the browser) - they claim
> > Linux/UNIX is "less secure than windows " (3.1 , 95, 98 AND NT!!!!!!!!! -
> > they said this when I spoke to them) - I have made excessive threats to them
> > about legal action and have several people investigating whether what they
> > are doing is legal, but until then, is there an easy way to get ns to lie
> > about os/browser version, or can some of us write some kind of proxy which
> > lies about os, etc...?? Thanx.
>
> --
> Jonathan Benson
> Systems Administrator
> Ocean Internet
> http://www.ocean.com.au/
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