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User-Agent: Manage listed Strings - Set Var
Jul. 24, 2009, 09:30 AM
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User-Agent: Manage listed Strings - Set Var
Opera 10

before:
Code:
User-Agent: Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en) Presto/2.2.15 Version/10.00

after:
Code:
User-Agent: Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 5.1; U)

Firefox

before:
Code:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090715 Firefox/3.5.1

after:
Code:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090715 Firefox/3.5.9.9

Maybe we should give opera the same treat as Firefox.

BTW, what's the point to "correct" browser's Use-Agent?
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Jul. 24, 2009, 02:12 PM
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RE: User-Agent: Manage listed Strings - Set Var
(Jul. 24, 2009 09:30 AM)whenever Wrote:  BTW, what's the point to "correct" browser's Use-Agent?

not sure if this pertains to "correcting" a User-Agent, but i often times "fake" a User-Agent to a 'very old' UA so as to get a page rendering that is much more pleasing to the eye (my office webmail is one that comes to mind - i don't get all of the D@MN flyover CRAP by "pretending" to be MSIE 2.0; Windows 3.1)...
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Jul. 25, 2009, 11:01 AM (This post was last modified: Jul. 25, 2009 11:01 AM by sidki3003.)
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RE: User-Agent: Manage listed Strings - Set Var
Regarding site-specific UA faking: What ProxRocks said.


(Jul. 24, 2009 09:30 AM)whenever Wrote:  Maybe we should give opera the same treat as Firefox.

I doubt that Opera is relevant enough for statistical subversion sniffing.


Quote:BTW, what's the point to "correct" browser's Use-Agent?

Generally: No need to give away more browser information than required for proper page display.

Firefox: Sort of a permanent test if UA string changes are still working.
And - for me - to get a clue about config usage in access logs.
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