{"id":630,"date":"2008-04-22T09:54:27","date_gmt":"2008-04-22T08:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/?p=630"},"modified":"2008-04-22T10:53:31","modified_gmt":"2008-04-22T09:53:31","slug":"bankers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/2008\/04\/22\/bankers\/","title":{"rendered":"Bankers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If my bank were to check the access logs of their online banking site, they&#8217;d discover a few requests every day with the following user agent:<\/p>\n<p><code>Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko\/20071127 Firefox\/2.0.0.11 (actually 3.0b5 but a certain banking site won't let me in unless I lie about it)<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Someone should tell them that trying to block people using user agent sniffing is about as futile as trying to reduce the teenage pregnancy rate by means of abstinence-only education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If my bank were to check the access logs of their online banking site, they&#8217;d discover a few requests every day with the following user agent: Mozilla\/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko\/20071127 Firefox\/2.0.0.11 (actually 3.0b5 but a certain banking site won&#8217;t let me in unless I lie about it) Someone should tell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,29],"tags":[269],"class_list":["post-630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-displeasure","tag-user-agent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}