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RE: MSN Messenger d/l link...
With most browsers, the OS is sent in the UserAgent field or some such similar field in the HTTP request. If the OS isn't recognised, or that info isn't sent, the site will usually offer a manual choice.

Anyway, if that site detects you're on a Mac, it should go to the MSN Messenger for Mac page.

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My UserAgent field is as follows:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6 Web-Sniffer/1.0.21

This says I'm using a Mozilla-based browser (Firefox 1.0.6 specifically), on Windows NT 5.1 (Windows XP), and to favour US English pages (depite being British). And I think the Web-Sniffer thing is because I used http://web-sniffer.net/. A regular HTTP GET probably won't have that bit.

This post was edited on 08-24-2005 at 08:17 PM by RaceProUK.
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MSN Messenger d/l link... - by Salem on 08-24-2005 at 05:23 PM
RE: MSN Messenger d/l link... - by Val on 08-24-2005 at 06:49 PM
RE: MSN Messenger d/l link... - by ShawnZ on 08-24-2005 at 06:50 PM
RE: MSN Messenger d/l link... - by Anubis on 08-24-2005 at 07:01 PM
RE: MSN Messenger d/l link... - by Eljay on 08-24-2005 at 07:03 PM
RE: MSN Messenger d/l link... - by Anubis on 08-24-2005 at 07:09 PM
RE: MSN Messenger d/l link... - by ShawnZ on 08-24-2005 at 07:11 PM
RE: MSN Messenger d/l link... - by RaceProUK on 08-24-2005 at 08:13 PM
RE: MSN Messenger d/l link... - by Salem on 08-24-2005 at 08:42 PM
RE: MSN Messenger d/l link... - by RaceProUK on 08-26-2005 at 03:28 PM
RE: RE: MSN Messenger d/l link... - by Salem on 08-26-2005 at 03:36 PM
RE: MSN Messenger d/l link... - by CookieRevised on 08-26-2005 at 04:51 PM


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