Microsoft Free Friday

Huh? Why do I keep ending up at this page?

The files stored on this webserver are not available to users of Microsoft Internet Explorer on Fridays. You may still access them on other days of the week, but why not try a different browser today?

May I suggest:

• Mozilla
• Opera
• Netscape 4.7x (for those with less-powerful computers)
• Konqueror (for Linux/KDE users)
• Lynx (for those who want text and nothing but text)

How did you do this?

I love mod_rewrite :)

RewriteCond %{TIME_WDAY}          ^5$                                    [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT}    MSIE
RewriteRule !^microsoftFree.html$ -                                      [C]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$                http://%{HTTP_HOST}/microsoftFree.html [R,L]

Where did the idea come from?

I stole it from this guy. Except I didn't have to write an Apache module :)

Are you an evil genius?

Yes. Yes, I am.