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                           Why I haven't heard of it
                                        
I'm still not convinced. [1] I wrote a quick program [2] to act as a
webserver (it serves up the same page reguardless of what you request) and
had it log the request the client sends it. I got this from the most widely
used browser:

-----[ HTTP request ]-----
GET /~spc/bm/ HTTP/1.1
Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, */*
Accept-Language: en-us
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt)
Host: linus.slab.conman.org
Connection: Keep-Alive

-----[ END OF LINE ]-----

Nothing about screen size or resolution as far as I can see.

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2001/02/23.1
[2] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2001/02/24/sws.c

Email author at sean@conman.org