From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from dsl092-170-086.wdc1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([66.92.170.86] helo=cantata.rednote.net) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18Dojm-00078f-00 for ; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 11:27:02 -0500 Received: from cantata.rednote.net (cantata.rednote.net [127.0.0.1]) by cantata.rednote.net (8.12.3/8.12.3/Debian -4) with ESMTP id gAIGQwk6025333 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=FAIL) for ; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 11:26:58 -0500 Received: (from janina@localhost) by cantata.rednote.net (8.12.3/8.12.3/Debian -4) id gAIGQvGC025331 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 11:26:57 -0500 Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 11:26:57 -0500 From: Janina Sajka To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: fake user agent Message-ID: <20021118162657.GJ24763@rednote.net> References: <20021117180524.GF19882@rednote.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-Operating-System: Linux cantata 2.4.16 Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: I found that I had block-cursor checked. Per Kenny's instructions, I've now unchecked it, but haven't yet tried any pages. Soon, and I'll report. The business of faking the user agent is an old and honorable trick in the user-agent domain. There are far too many stupid sites that don't want to display content to user agents who don't identify the way they want. Bank of America, for example, recently displayed a page to me saying that I should come back with a user agent that supports 128-bit SSL. Such tests are, of course, themselves fake. Were BofA actually testing my browser's encryption, whuich can be done technologically, they'd know my user agent significantly exceeds this minimal 128-bit threshold, which happens to be the best that IE does these days. I'm at 192-bit, thank you very much. But, they're not testing encryption as their error message claims. Rather, they're looking at the user agent declaration and jumping to erronaeous conclusions--a dangerous and insecure practice on its own. PS: I set my user agent to Mozilla-1.0.1 and got in. Cheryl Homiak writes: > From: Cheryl Homiak > > Is this a links problem or a speakup problem or a combination, i wonder. because > I can cursor track in braille with links2.1; at least, the cursor moves to the > link I'm on. > > Cheryl > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina@afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175