Off the wall quuestion about browsing.

Hiisi very-cool at rambler.ru
Sun Mar 1 08:01:11 UTC 2009


> Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 12:51:51 -0600
> From: Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: Off the wall quuestion about browsing.
> To: fedora-list <fedora-list at redhat.com>
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> I notice that when I browse certain sites they can determing what city 
I
> live in. How is that done? I can't figure that out.

By the way, your browser sends some information about your system and 
even language you're using on it in a special header. My favourite 
Fedora' browser - lynx - doesn't send it. Because of that I can't browse 
some pages. Error message on them says: `Sorry. Probably you're robot!`.
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Hiisi.




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