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Generally speaking it's due to not wanting to test multiple browsers (laziness). However, at $BIG_CORP, we had a massive internal website that did exactly this
by richbell 4y ago
Generally speaking it's due to not wanting to test multiple browsers (laziness).
However, at $BIG_CORP, we had a massive internal website that did exactly this. Naturally, people bypassed this by changing their user-agent. When the product owner realized this, he flew into a rage on Slack and threatened that people bypassing the block could be help criminally responsible for damaging infrastructure. I never figured out what his reasoning was.
- hestefisk 4y agoCould be the site was configured to use IE6 NTLM authentication, which other browsers don’t support. Could be to maintain an audit trail of who accessed what, eg for SOX compliance reasons. It was / is not uncommon for big corporations with an SOE / golden image with Windows vXX and IE vXX to do this. Not saying this to defend his / her dickhead behaviour, though. It’s very different (and extremely lazy) for a public web site.
- olyjohn 4y agoChrome and Firefox have both supported NTLM for years.
- Ygg2 4y agoYeah, and by pushing out features, Google is building a moat. You must be this rich to enter, otherwise you will get left in the dirt. Mozilla isn't fully blameless but Web is turning into OS 2.0
- justinclift 4y ago> I never figured out what his reasoning was. Probably being a control freak, then making shit up to try and force ppl to follow his dictates.