New Apache Mod: Microsoft-Free Fridays 27
cygnusx writes "This Apache mod is great for laughs -- but given the number of people who use IE, I can't see too many webmasters adopting it."
"In my opinion, Richard Stallman wouldn't recognise terrorism if it came up and bit him on his Internet." -- Ross M. Greenberg
Hrmm... (Score:3)
BrowserMatchNoCase "MSIE" cocksucker
<FilesMatch *>
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from env=cocksucker
</FilesMatch>
Why a module....?? (Score:2)
Why a module (Score:1)
but *friday* (Score:2)
Thanks for checking for Opera! (Score:3)
Re:Why a module (Score:1)
Re:but *friday* (Score:1)
Re:but *friday* (Score:2)
Re:Origin of Microsoft-Free Fridays? (Score:1)
Re:Why a module....?? (Score:2)
Doing it as a module is probably a lot less overhead, than reading the directive and expression, then displaying the result.
Don't know how useful it is, but it's pretty cute.
Dave
Re:Re:Thanks for checking for Opera! (Score:1)
I agree with you on the javascript part, but... excluded from pages?
Could you give an example please?
I never experienced being excluded, because of using Opera. And I don't even use the latest version [opera.com].
Re:Re:Thanks for checking for Opera! (Score:1)
I think about converting the parking spaces in front of my house to 'Toyota-free' zones.
That'll teach 'em!!!
Oh wait... it won't. Oh well.
good module demo (Score:2)
It shows how to acces things in the headers_in, and how to write messages. Thus cookies are part of the headers in also, so it would be easey to modify to read the cookies.
I don't want a lot, I just want it all!
Flame away, I have a hose!
Defeating the purpose... (Score:1)
Well, I would assume "freedom of choice in browser software" would include my choice to use MSIE. But it apparently doesn't work that way.
Come on, that's just ridiculous.
bye bye nose? (Score:2)
Anyone using this on their server is cutting off their nose to spite their face. Banner ads have enough trouble displaying and anyone rejecting IE eyeballs at their site is rejecting a large percentage of the Internet that day and insuring that advertisers won't pay full rate. No one owning a store would tell people
Non-commercial sites would probably do OK with this, but note that some people running Apache Linux servers may not be browsing with a non-MS browser and you might be pushing them away from using open stuff. Is it really that open, then?
Neat project (Score:1)
I don't know why they did it as a module, but as a person who has never bothered to read through the apache docs, this little file could serve as a good teaching tool, or in-class programming example.
Hehe. I like.
Funny, but think about it (Score:2)
I happen to think that alot of Linux people are arrogant and stuck up, but I don't exclude them from my sites, even one day a week.
While you ponder your answer, I'll be hard at work on some javascript that boots Konqueror users to microsoft.com.
Re:Re:Thanks for checking for Opera! (Score:1)
This despite the fact that Opera (5.11 in this case) manages the claimed-lacking 128-bit crypto, and if you tell it to lie about what it is things work fine.
Try visiting Toyota Canada [toyota.ca] without having Opera lie about its identity and you're immediately treated like trash. Have Opera lie about its identity and everything works fine.
I've encountered a number of sites that do this. These just happened to be two convenient examples.
Re:bye bye nose? (Score:2)
The Web will never be open again if M$ succeeds in getting away with it. Through illegal activity (as confirmed by the appeals court), M$ has managed to demolish the browser market. Now, with the Smart Tags, they're starting to do what everybody expected them to do when they gain a browser monopoly -- take the control of the Web away from the general population, and try to control it themselves.
Since the courts are evidently too timid to treat M$ the way a criminal should be treated (and the Justice Department probably will be as well), then the only way to restore normal competition in the browser market to the benefit of consumers and an open Web is to ensure that IE does not get used any more. Any means of persuading the general public of this is certainly legitimate. I just think we need another six days in the Microsoft-Free Week.
Re:Thanks for checking for Opera! (Score:2)
Re:Thanks for checking for Opera! (Score:1)
Molf
Misdirected resources (Score:1)
"Genetic engineering lets us fix god's horrible, horrible mistakes...like German people."
Origin of Microsoft-Free Fridays? (Score:1)
I don't know if he started it, but Dave Winer promoted Microsoft-Free Fridays [userland.com] in response to Microsoft's SmartTags [manilasites.com] (which are still in Office, and will will surely end up in Internet Explorer at some point).
Re:Misdirected resources (Score:1)
"The wonderful thing about standards is that there's so many to choose from."
There's quite a difference between supporting the standards, and creating new ones that only you can support, and then suddenly you're the only game in town.
"We've upped our standards, so up yours."
Re:bye bye nose? (Score:1)
Note: I happen to have Netscape on my RedHat box. I use it when I have to (ie download a file) but as for surfing I use IE on a Windows box. Why? Nothing sucks more than moving the browser window or resizing it and watching the goddamn page reload. Or not being able to handle a redirect back to a dynmically generated page. Or displaying no page when a careless web developer forgets to close a TD tag. There are many areas where Netscape really stinks it up. This may have been fixed in Mozilla. If I ever get a stable build I'll give it a shot. (providing they have taken out all those custom buttons that make the whole browser look like Netcenter.)
Re:Would you share your knowledge? (Score:2)
Partial code you shall get...
Time Dependend Rewriting (Its based on time... days would be simple) -http://www.engelschall.com/pw/apache/rewriteguid
Browser Dependend Content - http://www.engelschall.com/pw/apache/rewriteguide
Both taken from "A Users Guide to
URL Rewriting with the
Apache Webserver" circa pre 2000
Re:Misdirected resources (Score:1)
Ultimately I prefer to use the most stable and attractive browser out there. I'm not a hardcore Linux fanatic who shuns anything remotely linked to Bill Gates. But on the same token, I'm not a drugged-up MS drone drooling over WindowsME. I don't worry about being hip or stickin' it to the man. If Bill Gates gives me something that's functional and helps me see the true potential of the Web, then I'll gladly give him money. I like to use what works, and for the moment that would be Internet Explorer. Now if Netscape ever gets version 6 to run without exploding (and, please god, slaps some CSS3 support on it...drool), I'll gladly switch over to Netscape.
"Genetic engineering lets us fix god's horrible, horrible mistakes...like German people."