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Re: IE7 Navigate failing inside a thread

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From: Hans Galema
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 20:30
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Remy Lebeau (TeamB) wrote:

> The UserAgent is the only application-specified identifer available.  If you
> set Indy's UserAgent to match IE's, there is no other way a website can
> differentiate between the two.

A browser sends a HTTP_REFERER too. The server can check for the right referer.

I suppose one can add such things to the header with TIdHTTP. (I did not
experiment with that component yet but will be soon).

Hans.
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