banks 'n' browser revisited: The sorry tale of HSBC Canada

[Stewart C. Russell]

Patrick Allen wrote:
> 
> Doesn't Konqueror now have a function that lets you change how it 
> identifies itself?

I'm guessing it just spoofs the user agent, like the UA extension I 
tried on Mozilla. HSBC uses some fairly extensive JavaScript checks to 
work out what the browser is.

> On that same note, would something like this work on Linux? 
> http://www.reviewedinfo.org/quicktips/mozilla/#toc4

That's what the UA changer tools do.

thanks anyway,
  Stewart
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