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Making IE 7 look like IE 6 to get around website restrictions

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I just picked this up via Rory Street and although I haven’t tried it, it certainly looks interesting for those who are having problems accessing websites which check the browser version when using the Internet Explorer (IE) 7.0 beta…

Mark Harrison has a post on his blog which talks about changing the IE7 user agent string so that websites think you are using IE6 (a tip from the IEBlog). He also has links to scripts to switch the associated registry setting.

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2 responses to “Making IE 7 look like IE 6 to get around website restrictions”

  1. Mark’s (we)Blog » Making Firefox pretend to be IE (user agent spoofing)

    […] play nicely with browsers that it doesn’t recognise. I’ve previously written about making Internet Explorer (IE) 7.0 pretend to be IE 6.0 but today I needed to change the behaviour of Firefox 1.5 to trick the intranet into thinking […]

  2. Mark’s (we)Blog » Running multiple versions of Internet Explorer side-by-side

    […] written previously about using user agent spoofing to make Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) 7 and Mozilla Firefox behave like legacy versions of IE but I just stumbled across this nifty […]

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