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# ha.ckers.org web application security lab

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ha.ckers.org web application security lab - Archive » IE7.0 Detector

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## [IE7.0 Detector](http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20070210/ie70-detector/)

[I wrote a cheezy little tool tonight to detect if users are using IE7.0 or not using the res:// handler](http://ha.ckers.org/weird/). Basically it just checks to see if one of the buttons used in the anti-phishing filter are there. If so you have IE7.0. If not, you are using another browser. Firefox for instance drops a security warning when using a res:// location but also replaces the image with a default broken image, which we can detect.

The broken image in Firefox actually has a size, which we can detect (instead of giving an error when I attempt to access the image - which I could still probably get around by measuring the width of something that surrounds it most likely). Anyway, with a small hack I can now test if the user is using IE7.0 regardless if they are spoofing their user agent. Tis a minor issue.

  This entry was posted on Saturday, February 10th, 2007 at 8:42 pm and is filed under [Webappsec](http://ha.ckers.org/blog/category/webappsec/). You can follow any responses to this entry through the [RSS 2.0](http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20070210/ie70-detector/feed/) feed. You can leave a response, or [trackback](http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20070210/ie70-detector/trackback/) from your own site.

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