[thelist] Is it my Opera or the server?

[Ken Kogler]

> Note also that Opera provides the ability to change the useragent
string
> so you may not be able to detect that the visiting browser is Opera.
> I've heard of many Opera users that change their user agent setting to
> advertise the browser as IE so they get through user agent checks.

I've got Opera 6.05 set to identify as MSIE5, and here's my UA String:

"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows XP) Opera 6.05 [en]"

So depending on how you filter that, I could be using Moz, IE, or Opera.
:)

The point is that when Opera is set to identify as something else, the
word Opera still shows up in the UA String.

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--Ken