* and then Daniel Stenberg declared....
> >How should I handle this?
>
> Fix the server end to not depend on what the request has in its user-agent
> and referred fields.

Ok, to clarify for me. You're saying that there is *no need* for me to
urlencode() or other sise tamper with strings like this:

"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.23; Mac_PowerPC"
"http://www.google.com/search?q=search+term&hl=en&lr=&start=70&sa=N"

right?

thankyou!

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Nick W