Re: Spoofing UA string

[Hex1a4 <hex1a4 gmail com>]

In the time of Tue, 24 Jun 2008 19:11:09 +0200
thus spoke Christian Persch <chpe gnome org>:

> Hi;
> 
> Le mardi 24 juin 2008 à 12:34 -0400, Hex1a4 a écrit :
> > Is there a way, and if so how, to spoof the user agent string for a
> > given site?  Sometimes sites have those stupid browser checks and I
> > can't access their content using Epiphany.  When I visit the site
> > using Firefox (one of the browsers checked for) the site works just
> > fine, so I know Epiphany will also work, if I can only get through
> > that darn browser check.  
> 
> Are you using debian's epiphany package? If so, this problem exists
> because the debian maintainers have, in their infinite wisdom, chosen
> to override the epiphany developers and have removed the
> "Firefox/x.y" part from the epiphany UA string. 
> You check that epiphany's UA includes the "Firefox/x.y" part by
> loading the about: URL; and you can add parts to it by creating
> "general.useragent.extra.XXXXX" preferences in about:config.
> 
> If a site does check for "Firefox/x.y" specifically instead of just
> checking for a gecko-powered browser, it's a site bug; please refer
> the site owners to http://geckoisgecko.org/ .
> 
> 	Christian
> 
Yes I am.  I added the extra string to the UAID.  Thank you.  I was
hoping for an extension, perhaps something similar to the one Firefox
has, but this will do.  Again, thank you. 

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