Subj : Re: browser exclusion?
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Sybren Stuvel
Date : Fri Dec 10 2004 08:06 am

Pandora Xero enlightened us with:
> I'm making a collection of webpages, and I was wondering if there's
> a way to prevent certain browsers from viewing the pages...

Yes there is.

> especially browsers which pose a security threat to inferior
> Operating Systems.  such as one that is known by its initials: IE.

Why do you want to do that? You won't get much visitors, since you'll
annoy the major part of them. You can give them a warning, but people
WILL NOT download another browser and learn how to use it just to
visit your website. They'll go away and visit someone else's.
Remember, people are more on other sites than on yours!

> Basically, I want the page to redirect Internet Exploder to the page
> to download Firefox without showing so much as a single pixel of my
> webpages.

For the redirection: http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/reback

> As a side note, the exclusion will have to be built into the pages,
> as they will hosted on a remote server that DOES NOT BELONG TO ME

The server not belonging to you doesn't mean anything to me. You'll be
better off telling us what you can and what you can't do.

Sybren
-- 
The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a
capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the
safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?

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