Mac Norton Firewall, no User Agent only on .ico images..

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Mac Norton Firewall, no User Agent only on .ico images..

I block agents that don't give me a User Agent string - but this is strange

scottspence

8:52 am on Feb 7, 2003 (gmt 0)

Hi,

The title says it all. I have a user who uses Norton Firewall on a Mac, they try to request pages from my site and everything goes fine, the moment they request a page that is not HTML (i.e. favicon.ico) they get thrown out because my server does not get a User Agent String:

dsl093-249-044.chi3.dsl.speakeasy.net - - [06/Feb/2003:19:02:59 +0000] "GET /p2/favicon.ico HTTP/1.0" 302 222 "-" "-"

Normal (html) pages have this footprint:

dsl093-249-044.chi3.dsl.speakeasy.net - - [07/Feb/2003:01:35:31 +0000] "GET /p2/0023.shtml HTTP/1.0" 302 223 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/51 (like Gecko) Safari/51"

Is the problem with the firewall or the User Agent (Safari)?

Advice appreciated.

Scott

scottspence

9:07 am on Feb 7, 2003 (gmt 0)

Looks like I am going to (partly) answer my own question:

[dhtmlkitchen.com...]

"navigator.appVersion is incorrect (severity: 3). navigator.appVersion returns the same string as navigator.userAgent. The browser is in beta, so 1.0 beta or 1b would be appropriate. "

perhaps this has something to do with it?

or perhaps not - one thing is for sure Safari still seems in beta testing - a shame so many people are using it!

Scott