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Ask HN: how does the automatic browser detection work? (Hacker News was down)

4 points by wodow 13y ago

Text was: Hacker News Yep, it's been one of those days... Hang on a bit while we make sure you're legit. Checking your browser before accessing ycombinator.com. This process is automatic. Your browser will redirect to your requested content shortly. Please allow up to 5 seconds…

ddorian43 13y ago
I guess the static page is delivered from cloudflare and then after 5 seconds they request content from hn server?
jbkkd 13y ago
http://www.quirksmode.org/js/detect.html http://www.quirksmode.org/js/detect.html