Re: How to ban old Browsers?

From: Matthias Grund <squid@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 09:18:29 +0100

Hi,

Dave J Woolley wrote:
>
> > From: Matthias Grund [SMTP:squid@draeger.com]
> >
> > we would like to ban old browsers like MSIE 3.02 from our
> > squid-proxies.
> >
> From http://www.w3.org/WAI/
>
> "The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone
> regardless of disability is an essential aspect."
> -- Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director and inventor of the World Wide Web
>
> Why do you want to break that universality?

That's not the point! We won't ban any browser from accessing our
www-server. We just want to force our employees to use a browser
with less security holes.

Unfortunately we still have no idea how to match on "MSIE 3.02".
I'll try --enable--gnuregex next week.

Regards,
        Matthias Grund

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Received on Thu Nov 18 1999 - 01:28:54 MST

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