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3.6.1 What is "spoofing", anyway?

   "Spoofing"  is  a  web-browser  term  which means tricking a server into
thinking  your  client  (web  browser)  is  not  what it is, but is in fact
some other client.

   Confused?   Don't  be.   Essentially  what it means is this:  if you use
Voyager  on  a  site  that  checks to see what browser you are using and it
won't  let  you  in because you're not using Netscape or Internet Explorer,
you  can  fool  the  server  into  thinking  you *ARE* Netscape or Internet
Explorer  by  "spoofing"  it.  The site will then treat you just like those
omnipresent browsers.  

   A  word  of  warning  though:   if the site is testing to see if you are
using  Netscape  or  Internet  Explorer,  it  may be because that site uses
non-standard  HTML  (or  Java or Java-Script) that Voyager doesn't support.
If that's the case, you might not enjoy your stay on the site anyway.

   I'll repeat that:  SPOOFING DOES NOT TURN VOYAGER INTO NETSCAPE.  It just
makes Voyager "look" like Netscape to the server machine.


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