faking your browser

[Darrell Shandrow]

Hi Janina,

Here you go; I run IE 6:
Welcome lt.shandrow.com (206.124.184.78)
using Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705;
.NET CLR 1.1.4322).


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2004 10:41 AM
Subject: Re: faking your browser


> Awesome, Raul! So, what we need now is for some of our friends who have
> "up to date" Windows browsers to log onto your page and report back to
> the list the exact user agent string. Then, we'll have some good
> candidates to stuff into the "masquerade as" option.
>
>
> Raul A. Gallegos writes:
> > From: "Raul A. Gallegos" <raul at asmodean.net>
> >
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > Hash: SHA1
> >
> > If you visit http://www.asmodean.net I have a visit.cgi script which
> > runs and displays your IP address as well as the supposed browser you
> > are using.  If you do make some tests you can at least use that page to
> > see what it thinks you are using for a browser.
> >
> >
> > Janina Sajka said the following on Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at
11:15:32AM -0500:
> > > The old classic solution to this bit of browserism is simply to lie.
In
> > > lynx, and possibly in links, there is a "masquerading as" setting,
where
> > > you can define the identification string that will be supplied to t
with
> > > your http connection. So, you can pretend to be any browser they want!
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> >
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