Tickets :: Comment on [#3282] logouts due to browser string changes.

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Comment	> we're using horde 3.0.5, imp 4.0.4, turba 2.0.4, and ingo 1.0.2 for > webmail, and running into a variety of cases where users are logged > out prematurely. > > > > we've tracked some of these to AUTH_REASON_BROWSER logouts -- there > seem to be quite a few browsers out there that can change their > User-Agent strings in the middle of a session. a few examples: > > > > 1) netscape 8 sometimes switches rendering engines in the middle of a > session, and sends a different User-Agent string depending on which > rendering engine it's using, e.g. "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; > Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) Netscape/8.0.4" or > "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) > Gecko/20051012 Netscape/8.0.4". > > > > 2) safari appears to occasionally switch from a full User-Agent > string such as "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) > AppleWebKit/312.8 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/312.5" to > "CFNetwork/1.1". > > > > 3) a browser identifying itself as "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE > 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; MSN 9.0;MSN 9.1; > MSNbVZ02; MSNmen-us; MSNcOTH; MPLUS)" sometimes has an extra space > before "MSN 9.0". > > > > 4) a browser identifying itself as "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE > 6.0; Windows 98; MSN 6.1; MSNbMSFT; MSNmen-us; MSNc11; v5m)" > occasionally substitutes "MSNczz" for "MSNc11". > > > > i suspect we'll wind up turning off AUTH_REASON_BROWSER entirely -- > trying to keep up with browser quirks of this sort seems like more > trouble than it's worth.
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