[penguicon-general] anyone know something about Opera?

[LadySarah]

Bo, that's exactly what I was looking for.  Thank you!  :)

On Nov 18, 2007 6:24 AM, Bo Hansen <bohans at online.no> wrote:

> Hi Sarah,
>
> Not sure this is what you are after, but you can configure Opera to
> pretend it is IE by setting the user agent header. Whenever a browser
> requests a web page from a server it sends the user agent header to the
> server. Some websites use this setting to block certain browsers etc.
> MSN.com famously blocked the Opera browser from accessing the website
> back in 2001, prompting Opera to retaliate by releasing the special Bork
> edition of Opera which displayed gibberish instead of MSN.com but not
> instead of any other web site.
>
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/14/1256231
>
> Please see the following site on how to set the user agent header in
> your browser:
>
> http://www.ericgiguere.com/articles/masquerading-your-browser.html
>
>
>
> On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 13:46 -0500, LadySarah wrote:
> > Because our work site only works with IE.  I've been able to open it
> > through an IE tab in Firefox but the listing program doesn't open
> > properly to be used.  I was going to check  Opera to see if that one
> > would better.  Amazingly enough, this is part of my job.  :)
> >
> > Sarah
>
>
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