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lannings at who

Jan 27, 2009, 9:50 AM

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user-agent in IE (revisited)

=head1 VERSION 1.10.2 "Summer" (2006-06-22)
[...]
* Using Internet Explorer to create a media document via a the upload
field in a related media element no longer uses a full Windows file
system path. Reported by Tom Kjeldsen. [David]

For some reason a user is nonetheless managing to upload media with
the full path (drive and everything). I guess it would be their
user-agent string?
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/bricolage/commits/26265?do=post_view_threaded

I tried having them uninstall their plugins, in case something was changing
the user-agent, but that didn't work. I guess I could have them try
changing it manually in the registry.. (which means I'll probably have
to do it :D )

I guess this is just in case anyone else has this problem,
like a heads up.

david at kineticode

Jan 27, 2009, 12:18 PM

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Re: user-agent in IE (revisited) [In reply to]

On Jan 27, 2009, at 9:50 AM, Lanning, Scott wrote:

> For some reason a user is nonetheless managing to upload media with
> the full path (drive and everything). I guess it would be their
> user-agent string?
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/bricolage/commits/26265?do=post_view_threaded
>
> I tried having them uninstall their plugins, in case something was
> changing
> the user-agent, but that didn't work. I guess I could have them try
> changing it manually in the registry.. (which means I'll probably have
> to do it :D )
>
> I guess this is just in case anyone else has this problem,
> like a heads up.

What is the user string for this browser?

Best,

David

lannings at who

Jan 29, 2009, 6:48 AM

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Re: user-agent in IE (revisited) [In reply to]

On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, David E. Wheeler wrote:
>> For some reason a user is nonetheless managing to upload media with
>> the full path (drive and everything). I guess it would be their
>> user-agent string?
[...]
> What is the user string for this browser?

Two days later, I still don't know,
though I'm guessing it doesn't contain both "Windows" and "MSIE".

George.Harrison at gov

Jan 29, 2009, 8:21 AM

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RE: user-agent in IE (revisited) [In reply to]

On January 29, 2009 08:49 AM: Scott Lanning wrote

> On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, David E. Wheeler wrote:
>>> For some reason a user is nonetheless managing to upload media with
>>> the full path (drive and everything). I guess it would be their
>>> user-agent string?
> [...]
>> What is the user string for this browser?
>
> Two days later, I still don't know,
> though I'm guessing it doesn't contain both "Windows" and "MSIE".

Explorer 7 Beta 2 apparently used the string: "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible;
MSIE 7.0; Win32)". Other versions all contain both "MSIE" and "Windows".

Does javascript:alert(navigator.userAgent) report correctly what the
browser actually sends to Bricolage?

david at kineticode

Jan 29, 2009, 9:56 AM

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Re: user-agent in IE (revisited) [In reply to]

On Jan 29, 2009, at 6:48 AM, Scott Lanning wrote:

>> What is the user string for this browser?
>
> Two days later, I still don't know,
> though I'm guessing it doesn't contain both "Windows" and "MSIE".

Well, once we know it should be easy to fix.

Best,

David

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