How to modify the User Agent

transistor

in Mozilla 1.1 and IE 5.2.2 in OS X?



Do you know?



I've tried even Resedit but no luck, I can't find the User Agent string!

defiant

what are u talking about ? <img src="confused.gif" border="0">

trevorm

you've really got me!



<img src="graemlins/surprised.gif" border="0" alt="[Surprised]" />

catalyst

omniweb has that feature. you can change it to anything you like, apart from being able to select from a list of known browsers.

defiant

if you tell us what u are talking about and where we find that we might be able to help u.

catalyst

I'm very sure he's talking about browser identification. And I replied saying that OmniWeb has that feature.

chucker

Too lazy to Google for it, eh?



<a href="http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/141/2000/11/0/4635269/"; target="_blank">http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/141/2000/11/0/4635269/</a>;

defiant

ah... <img src="graemlins/embarrassed.gif" border="0" alt="[Embarrassed]" />

catalyst

[quote]Originally posted by Defiant:

<strong>ah... <img src="graemlins/embarrassed.gif" border="0" alt="[Embarrassed]" /> </strong><hr></blockquote>



nvm.. we all know how tempting post count ++ is.

123

If you know a little c, you can also write a small program to replace the user agent on a lower layer. If you're not familiar with sockets, get the "throttled" source, remove the bandwidth timing stuff and insert some code to replace "User-Agent: (.*?)\

" with whatever you like in all packets. Then divert outgoing port 80 traffic to your program (ipfw). This works for every browser. Of course, you can make this as flexible as you like (eg. exclude certain browsers in the c code).

transistor

Thank you Chucker, but not good enough for me, what preference file, where?

I cannot find a prefs.js in Mozilla. (Mozilla&gt; Show Contents&gt; Lots of stuff, no prefs.js)

I have opened every "openable" file inside Mozilla Contents (including Resedit) and nothing.

Maybe I'm stupid or something, but it has to be somewhere.

I just want to add a distinctive string to identify myself in my web server logs and not count my own hits to my web site.



Catalyst, yeah, Omniweb is great! I've already done that, but I need to use Mozilla as well and I'd like to do the same thing.



123, that sound interesting, however I the only thing I know about C is that it is the third letter from the alphabet



User Agent or how Mozilla identifies to web sites (and maybe other servers): Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826

transistor

Found it!

HD:Users:a_user:Library:Mozilla rofiles efault:co90740r.slt refs.js



Thank you all!

catalyst

nvm... you've found it.



[ 10-03-2002: Message edited by: catalyst ]</p>

defiant

[quote]Originally posted by catalyst:

<strong>nvm... you've found it.



[ 10-03-2002: Message edited by: catalyst ]</strong><hr></blockquote>



what was that about post count ?