[TYPO3-english] TYPO3 behind a CDN and checkValidBrowserOrDie() ("Your browser version looks incompatible with this TYPO3 version")

[Jigal van Hemert]

Hi,

On 22/12/2015 13:01, Michael Schams wrote:
> Nevertheless I wonder what the purpose of the browser check for the BE
> is? :-) I mean, we are not testing against a specific version, but only
> against a string such as "IE". If someone tries to access the BE of 7.6
> with IE6, he passes the test (but we dropped the support for IE6 a long
> time ago). If someone tries to access the BE with an up-to-date browser
> and the TYPO3 instance is behind a proxy (e.g. a CDN), the test likely
> fails. So what's the point of checkValidBrowserOrDie()?

It's probably very old code. Anyways, it's been removed in 7LTS:

https://review.typo3.org/41261

So, another solution would be to upgrade to 7 :)

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