Posted by Chris Shiflett on 05/21/05 00:32

Graham Anderson wrote:
> are there any php methods that can accurately determine who the client is?
> mine is pretty basic...if I am a browser, then deny access

What you want is not possible. I guarantee you that I can make it so
that you can't tell whether a particular request I send is coming from
Firefox or just me copy/pasting an identical request into a raw telnet
connection.

Why is it important for you to deny access to certain user agents? I
don't quite understand your problem. In fact, I find it annoying when a
web application forces me to spoof my user agent just to use it.

Chris

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