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Re: [users@httpd] Is it possible to filter requests from certain browsers/OSes?

R. Eimann

2008-07-04

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This is not for many users anyway (nothing commercial), it's mainly for my
parents in law. The security of my boxes weighs a bit more than ethics in
this case. Apart from that, I provided a faily up-to-date Linux box to them,
but I have doubts that they actually use it (I dont care whether they use it
for general browsing, but I want to force them using it when they access
their SquirrelMail accounts on my box, for the sake of security of my box)...

On Saturday 05 July 2008, MegaBrutal wrote:
> Ban Windows users just because they are Windows users is quite
> unethical. You are discriminating them.
> But once, I've done something similar to Opera users, but I didn't
> banned them, just showed a warning that they are actually using a very
> crappy browser, use Firefox or IE instead. :D



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