[wplug] Telling webservers you don't have flash installed

[Vanco, Don]

One thing that might be worth consideration: installing 2 browsers and using
one when you absolutely have to see flash stuff.  I too loathe flash sites,
but there are some that are built entirely of it.  There are some great
flash site out there tho - like Homestar Runner and the new Ford GT site...

On my windoze laptop here @ work I do not have a flash plug-in in Internet
Exploder, but I do in Mozilla.  This allows me to use NetZero and not get
pestered with all the flash ad crap they display (but it does not save me bw
- they _still_ download to my system)

YMMV
Don

wplug-admin at wplug.org wrote:
> Russ Schneider wrote:
>> I just downloaded Mozilla Firebird for a spin, and noticed something.
>> Sites that usually give my Macromedia Flash ads on their pages,
>> detected that I didn't yet have Flash installed in Firebird, and
>> replaced them with regular GIF ads. 
>> 
>> Once I installed Flash, back came the Flash ads.
>> 
>> I HATE Flash ads on web pages.  Is there some way I can fake it so
>> sites can't detect whether I have Flash installed?  How do sites
>> like Yahoo figure it out?  What info is the browser sending?
> 
> I'm not sure exactly what info Flash sends, but it's probably in the
> HTTP accept headers (HTTP browsers can send a line listing the types
> of content they understand, then the web server can make
> decisions based
> on this).
> 
> I'm not sure how to tweak Firebird's headers, but if you
> figure this out,
> there will be a downside: ALL sites will think you don't have Flash,
> and you may have trouble viewing flash that you want to see.
> 
www.ethereal.com will allow you to see the headers your browser is
sending, but I'm not sure how to teach Firebird to change them.

--
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com

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