Re: form or no form how can I tell

Martijn Koster <m.koster@nexor.co.uk>

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> Hi,
> 
> Is there some clever trick to display some text only when
> the client doesn't support forms (So i can offer an alternative
> link for accessing my data)?
> Perhaps a clever CGI script?

Well, you can make a table of which User-Agent's have forms,
and then look at the HTTP User-Agent field. It's a hack, but
it works quite nicely. For example, ArchiePlex* generates
<IMG>'s with Mosaic's internal images only when the request
comes from Mosaic.

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