[thelist] Is server-side browser-sniffing a bad idea?

[Craig Saila]

Ben Gustafson wrote:

> Yup. Thanks, aardvark. BTW, this is a bit of a bummer, since sending a page tailored to

I ran into this a couple of times with my own site which serves up two 
completely different pages for the v.4 and below browsers and the v.5+ 
browsers.

It was only really an issue with IE because you couldn't force it to 
call the latest page (thankfully my ISP seems to have improved its 
caching), so I've stuck with it.

Despite the fact it cancels out the benefits of caching (i.e., faster 
download times for the user), wouldn't putting:
   <meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache">
in the head solve these server-side issues?

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Cheers,

Craig Saila
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