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Originally Posted by wilhel1812 i visited this site on my psp and it said: Mozilla/4.0 (PSP (PlayStation Portable); 2.00)
does this mean that the psp web browser is based on mozilla.
what happens when you try??
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I'm going to help you out from the IT stand point here; please keep in mind that I am only speculating based on 6 years experiance, not on any real testing.
The reason it says "Mozilla/4.0" is because this is the first time that WBID (Web Browser ID, also known as the UA string) was introduced. WBID tells a webpage what your browser, operating system, ip, and other stuff is to a web server. This was put into Netscape 4.0, which runs
using the Mozilla engine. It wasn't untill Netscape was grabbed by AOL that Mozilla and Netsacape were two seporate browsers; Untill that point, they were one and the same. So now the question is, "why does the psp identify itself as Netscape 4.0?" Remember that it was the first browser that had WBID. Thus, when a server recives ether an unrecogized WBID, it defaults to the first entry on it's list: "Mozilla 4.0." I get this when I feel like going retro and use Mosaic (a REALLY old browser, ask any really old computer techy) that does not use UA strings. Mosaic, which is 0% Mozilla, still comes up as "Mozilla 4.0." Go figure.
If you post the UA String that you get on your psp, I could get a much better idea of what's going on (that's the one like this: "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1")
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The other reason you could be coming up as Mozilla 4.0 is becase Mozilla sets the webpage standards. My Firefox comes up using Mozila standard 5.0, but internet exploder is mozilla standard 4.0....
:::For Opera Users:::
You can change your WBID in a few clicks. Hit tools>Quick Preferances>Identify as [Mozilla/Opera/IE].
:::For FireFox people:::
See if you can find the latest plugin called "firesomething." That'll really mess with these browser identifiers. The old 1.0 only plugin
here.
:::For MSIE:::
Get a better browser.
. Disclaimer: These are my opinions, and I am wholy responsible for them.
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