> 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.
Try Squid; from it's config file:
# TAG: fake_user_agent
# If you filter the User-Agent header with 'anonymize_headers' it
# may cause some Web servers to refuse your request. Use this to
# fake one up. For example:
#
# fake_user_agent Nutscrape/1.0 (CP/M; 8-bit)
# (credit to Paul Southworth pauls@etext.org for this one!)
#
#fake_user_agent none
#fake_user_agent Nutscrape/1.0 (CP/M; 8-bit)
Ralf
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